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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hi Roel,
>
> Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org> skribis:
>
[...]
>
>> One thing that really helped me in reducing the time to contribute
>> changes to the upstream distribution, is to have a good workflow.  I
>> ended up doing the following:
>> 1. Make the changes.
>> 2. Commit the changes.
>> 3 git format-patch -1 --no-attach
>> 4. git reset --hard <latest commit on origin/master>
>> 5. Submit the patch to the mailing list
>> 6. Wait for response and probably go back to 1.
>>
>> I made all of my changes on a GNU Guix git checkout.  So, not writing
>> package definitions on a separate repository.
>
> Do you think it would help to add this as a section in the manual?

This is a great idea!