Re: Git and submitting patches to fix bugs

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>]

On 2015-11-13, at 16:44, John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> wrote:

>>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Ideally, VC should have support for this, of course, in which case the Emacs
>> email setup will be used automatically.
>
> Even better, there's no reason we can't write something to automate all of
> this for future contributors. I.e.:
>
>  1. in your clone of Emacs, fix some stuff
>  2. commit
>  3. hit a key to submit your fix
>  4. get prompted with an issue number
>  5. done (assuming sendmail-send-it actually sends)
>
> I'll see what I can get done, unless someone else wants a hand at it.
>
> In general, it might be a good idea for us to have an Emacs module written
> just for Emacs development contributors, with commands to streamline our
> process.

This is a very good idea, though I'd prefer a Magit plugin/extension.

> Another command: You're in a Git repository for a project that's on ELPA; one
> key should be all you need to update your local clone of ELPA, and find
> yourself in a commit buffer to describe the update.
>
> John

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University