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[Db-derby Wiki] Update of "PatchAdvice" by DanDebrunner

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    * Address a single issue in the patch. 
  
-   * Consider multiple patches to address an issue. Incremental development is good, smaller self-contained patches are easier to review, easier to describe, easier to spot bugs in. If your description of a patch starts to list more than two or three things you needed to change to address the overall issue, then step back and consider if breaking the fix into multiple discrete steps would be better.
+   * Consider multiple patches to address an issue. [:IncrementalDevelopment:Incremental development] is good, smaller self-contained patches are easier to review, easier to describe, easier to spot bugs in. If your description of a patch starts to list more than two or three things you needed to change to address the overall issue, then step back and consider if breaking the fix into multiple discrete steps would be better.
  
    * Don't mix code cleanup with real code changes.