From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fetching or installing package dev source from VCS: manual style Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 08:05:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: <164484721900.31751.1453162457552427931@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <20220214140020.04438C00891@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> <87bkqmqpvb.fsf@posteo.net> <871qris3xb.fsf@gnus.org> <877d1aqoc1.fsf@posteo.net> <87edvhqdrb.fsf@gnus.org> <871qrh2hh6.fsf@posteo.net> <87mta5oyec.fsf@gnus.org> <87sfjx10x1.fsf@posteo.net> <875ygsp0ng.fsf@gnus.org> <87h70c9bu4.fsf@posteo.net> <874jw73cjy.fsf@posteo.net> <877d0z5216.fsf@posteo.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3235"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 18 14:21:30 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oklb7-0000bk-Pi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:21:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46118 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oklb5-0004zo-78 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2022 08:21:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53058) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oklLh-0003mP-69 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2022 08:05:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44884) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oklLe-0005Sj-Dq; Tue, 18 Oct 2022 08:05:30 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=RiEgd+mwTBzcwnMhZM6ec/qBLm03AHc7pZ2m01oJXS4=; b=raoTkM7nQRVW /XHw6AhGU63Qnr8rQB8xke910gQdNcr7oq0CDB7E7kgjXvzrXMcc5xZNNIuodJ2qWwmcmJFU2/ct/ EVs8/FiSsjnY5lH1GMcU7jOTDpwfwwhdg2r5JcvpvZlu/9R+BkA6Mvxo2johiXx0TlKNskFyU4mx9 wyrSp/daQGdrR8pTCIcQrPLk3TQNqZ8GGZvNsnsiA1e7H6OoylpllxDHrjGVZqolsZqRQI4FcpI0/ Am4l0XJqY/iVrlPBGS8WeLKJKRUNMZEIdAjjlBX8c/oDCSwpyjEZLAC3w5TRUVFcFWdv1EM93Niy5 2SCZCb4GOHViyxOtBOz3eg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oklLd-0002lS-49; Tue, 18 Oct 2022 08:05:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <877d0z5216.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Sun, 16 Oct 2022 13:30:29 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." 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:298035 Archived-At: [[[ 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)