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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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:298102 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > If you have made a change you wish to share > > with the maintainers, first commit your changes then use the command > > @code{package-vc-prepare-patch} to share it. @xref{Preparing Patches}. > > This presumes that a user who suggests a patch to a program will or > should commit that change to some repo in order to email the a patch. > This is an extra step and seems like a gratuitous requirement. > > When I write and suggest a patch in a program that I don't intend to > maintain a version of, I don't even think of doing that. I use M-x > diff to make the patch to email, because that is the natural Emacs > way. > > I think the command should be named `package-prepare-patch', and it > should be able to handle either way of working, with version control > or without. IMO in that case Emacs already does everything you need and there is no point in adding an additional command. `package-prepare-patch' would be part of package.el, and couldn't make use of the versioning history to generate a diff.