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Encourage submitting patches via the mailing list

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Ask Bjørn Hansen 2009-02-27 01:04:11 -08:00
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=head3 Submit patches by mail
If you don't use github, or if you want to submit your patch to the
mailing list for review (often a good idea), you can use
The best way to submit patches to the project is to send them to the
mailing list for review. Use the C<git format-patch> command to
generate patches ready to be mailed. For example:
git format-patch
git format-patch HEAD~3
to generate "patch files". For example "git format-patch HEAD~3" will
give you three files with the last changes.
will put each of the last three changes in files ready to be mailed
with the C<git send-email> tool (it might be a good idea to send them
to yourself first as a test).
Then use "git send-email" to send them to the mailing list for review.
Sending patches to the mailing list is the most effective way to
submit changes, although it helps if you at the same time also commit
them to a git repository (for example on github).
=head3 Merging changes back in from the master repository