Re: Sending in patches

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 19:08 +0100, Matthias Fischer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 10.01.2016 22:54, Michael Tremer wrote:
> > I find this process with "git send-email" very easy...
> 
> Just a few "cents" from me... ;-)
> 
> I don't know how you would call it:
> 
> I'm doing it the "old-fashioned way": strictly by command-line,
> directly 
> from GIT on my Ubuntu 'Devel'-PC. No GUI, no mouse, just console and 
> keyboard. Nothing but blinking cursors and GIT commands.
> git pull ..., git status ..., nano or mc-editor, make ..., git push
> ..., 
> git sendmail ...: thats nearly all I use and need.

I never considered that anyone would use something else than the
command line.

> And after struggling through some - sometimes rather weird -
> problems, 
> I'm getting used to it and wouldn't want to do it any other way.
> Its logical and fast. Not comfortable, but 'at the roots'.

Git is - of course like anything else - something that everyone needs
to learn at the start. After that is indeed logical and fast.

> And while creating a patch for a new 'nano 2.5.1'-version 
> (http://patchwork.ipfire.org/patch/208/) I got the thought that
> perhaps 
> it would help others if I would ~record the process of creating this 
> - 
> rather easy - patch with some "how I did it" explanations and/or 
> screenshots so they could get a grip on the procedure? Thinking of 
> "Building Addons", perhaps we could put something like that in Wiki?
> Not 
> too complicated, just showing how to build an rather easy patch and
> push 
> it/send it through GIT.

Maybe we should setup a page on the wiki to explain using git send
-email. I thought people read man pages from time to time which makes
this obsolete.

> 
> Sorry, I got Windows 7 running, but none of the mentioned tools here,
> so 
> my prerequisits may differ.
> 
> It would take some time, but I think, this could be a way to make
> things 
> easier.
> 
> Jm2C
> 
> Best,
> Matthias
> 

-Michael

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