From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: guile contributor setup Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:57:18 +0000 Message-ID: <87ipjox2r5.fsf@neil-laptop.ossau.uklinux.net> References: <87ipjonchv.fsf@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328223448 2858 80.91.229.3 (2 Feb 2012 22:57:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 22:57:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 02 23:57:27 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rt5ao-0007UF-KP for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:57:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38327 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rt5an-0002EP-VN for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:57:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:48638) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rt5ak-0002A7-TW for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:57:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rt5aj-0004G5-L1 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:57:22 -0500 Original-Received: from out1.ip07ir2.opaltelecom.net ([62.24.128.243]:31838) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rt5aj-0004Fy-GO for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:57:21 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ak4JAKETK09OlXAC/2dsb2JhbABDrhCBAYEGgXIBAQQBOhwjBQsIAyElDwEEDRgkE4d8Awa4Dod4g18CAgkFDAcGAQoCAgMGAgQCAQQCAhwDMIJjBRVpCAEEBB6DOQSgK4dN X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.73,348,1325462400"; d="scan'208";a="23077202" Original-Received: from host-78-149-112-2.as13285.net (HELO arudy) ([78.149.112.2]) by out1.ip07ir2.opaltelecom.net with ESMTP; 02 Feb 2012 22:57:18 +0000 Original-Received: from neil-laptop.ossau.uklinux.net.ossau.homelinux.net (host-78-149-112-2.as13285.net [78.149.112.2]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 22E993800B; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 22:57:18 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: <87ipjonchv.fsf@pobox.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:37:00 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 62.24.128.243 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:13788 Archived-At: Andy Wingo writes: > On Thu 02 Feb 2012 15:44, Catonano writes: > >> I'm considering the idea of trying to contribute some Scheme code to >> guile, and I'm running into some issues with emails, patches, git and >> the such. >> >> What's the common setup you people use ? > > I use git, from the command line and from Emacs. When I use it from > Emacs, I use magit: http://philjackson.github.com/magit/ > > I mostly use magit to commit, and otherwise the command line to update, > rebase, etc. I use gitk sometimes to get a graphical representations of > "the big picture". > > When I make a patch and want to mail it, I use magit to commit it with a > nice log. Then on the command-line I do "git format-patch > origin/stable-2.0..HEAD" and that spits out one file for each commit I > made that is not in upstream stable-2.0. I then attach them to mails. FWIW, 100% snap! Neil