From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sean Whitton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: contributing to Emacs Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2023 08:14:03 +0100 Message-ID: <87ilbevef8.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> References: <83v8fnslfz.fsf@gnu.org> <87v8fnh1h2.fsf@web.de> <83mt0zs9rc.fsf@gnu.org> <0a968a4e1b267c0f15dd237e6ea12a709fc06d5e.camel@yandex.ru> <838rcisj7o.fsf@gnu.org> <6537fa5fa5c1fe8437ed99ee0988e35895f5a54b.camel@yandex.ru> <8423a35750d8d8e0437c7708f6b4d0bbdfdb7fe0.camel@yandex.ru> <87o7ldf7ky.fsf@web.de> <8cc19084ab18d0adb0f2cee4af14aa1b1d914a83.camel@yandex.ru> <87352p9izj.fsf@yahoo.com> <87pm5mvfgi.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> <87sfaiy7wl.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36273"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cc: Konstantin Kharlamov , "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" , "Alfred M. 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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:307150 Archived-At: Hello, On Fri 23 Jun 2023 at 03:06PM +08, Po Lu wrote: > Sean Whitton writes: > >> This is not the typical case anymore. If a project is in git or >> similar, then the expectation is that you send a patches series for all >> but trivial changes. > > Such expectations are based on the assumption that the user sending the > patch has access to the version control files associated with the > program being used, which is hardly guaranteed to be true. I've never > seen Git repository files distributed together with a program. Not guaranteed, but it's the default. If a project is in git, and you want to contribute, you 'git clone'. -- Sean Whitton