[Sugar-devel] Fwd: making patches and sending email using git-email

[Walter Bender]

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 10:50, Sascha Silbe
> <sascha-ml-reply-to-2010-3 at silbe.org> wrote:
>> Excerpts from Ishan Bansal's message of Fri Oct 01 19:58:23 +0200 2010:
>>
>>> 2. To do the git email configuration for your system refer to
>>> http://paste.ubuntu.com/488777/
>
> Could we improve what we have in the wiki and refer people there?

I've expanded http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Git_FAQ#How_do_I_send_a_patch_to_the_Sugar_developers.3F
to incorporate this and Sascha's amendments.

>
> I would add some more recommendations:
>
> 1. Introduce yourself to the community.
> 2. Don't leave questions without a reply.
> 3. Whenever you take a task that someone else was doing, mention it
> explicitly so others aren't concerned about wasting efforts.
> 4. Ask when you don't understand.
> 5. Answer other people's questions when you can.

Good idea.

-walter

>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
>> From there:
>>
>>> 17 git send-email --to "sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org" patchname.patch
>>
>> FWIW, you don't need to create the patch (using format-patch) first,
>> git-send-email can do that for you:
>>
>> git send-email HEAD^..HEAD
>>
>> You can configure the destination address so you don't need to specify
>> it manually every time:
>>
>> git config sendemail.to "sugar-devel <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>"
>>
>> You need to do this for each of the repositories you are working on
>> (e.g. sugar + sugar-toolkit).
>>
>> Sascha
>>
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