Re: casual contributing with git

[Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune@gmail.com>]

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Thank you very much Amin.

> On May 19, 2019, at 11:08, Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> The CONTRIBUTE [0] file in the Emacs repository should contain the
> information you need with regards to the logistics of using git like
> branching and the like.
> 
> [0]: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/CONTRIBUTE

There is a discovery issue here because when you go to Savannah (https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/) you don't find that kind of information and instead find a link to EmacsWiki.

What is the best way to propose changes to the Savannah top page ?

Also, the Savannah page links to https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ which is beautifully designed but has no information about "contributing" or "developing" even in "Further information".

What is the best way to propose changes to the gnu/emacs page ?

> In short, usually you would develop on a local branch created from
> latest master.  When you’re done and/or when you’d like to show your
> work to others and get feedback, you create a patch from your changes,
> e.g. using git-format-patch, and use your mail client to send it to the
> correct mailing list for the project.  In the case of Emacs, that would
> be one of emacs-devel@gnu.org (this list) or bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org,
> depending on the nature of your patch and e.g. if you’re fixing an
> existing bug.  I skimmed through the first link in your email, and it
> does mention format-patch at some point.

That's what I found out eventually. But the EmacsWiki pages don't really address people who don't have write access so I was a bit confused.

> On a side note, instead of creating a patch with git-format-patch and
> then sending it separately, you could also use git-send-email to create
> a patch and send it at once.  There’s a nice interactive tutorial for
> git-send-email over at https://git-send-email.io that walks you through
> setting up and using git-send-email to create and send patches to a
> project mailing list.

Thank you.

> Hope this helps.

Very much. Thank you again.

Jean-Christophe Helary
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