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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jeff Clough <kb1vqh@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help with contributing first change (patch for debbugs 354)
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 09:35:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8361an6c34.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d24w1akg.fsf@gmail.com>

> From: Jeff Clough <kb1vqh@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 19:07:27 -0500
> 
> TL;DR: I am attempting to contribute my first change to GNU Emacs and am
> looking for a little hand-holding concerning the tools to use, and
> someone to review my change.

Thank you.

> 1. git checkout master
> 2. git pull
> 3. git checkout -b wishlist-354 (is this overkill for a small change?)

It's up to you.  I make such one-off changes directly in master, but
then I push them immediately after testing, while you will have to
wait until your patch is reviewed and approved.

> 4. Changed write-region in "fileio.c"
> 5. Tested my change (is building in place advised?)

Nothing wrong with building in place.  But please do make a point of
running the test suite, before and after the change, to make sure
there are no regressions.  Bonus points for adding tests to test this
new feature.

> So, what's next?

File a bug report with this patch, and wait for a review.

Thanks again.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-27  7:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-27  0:07 Help with contributing first change (patch for debbugs 354) Jeff Clough
2015-02-27  7:20 ` Paul Eggert
2015-02-27  7:35 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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