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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2015-09-11 08:34:46 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2015-09-11 08:34:46 -0700 |
| commit | 279303adfc6d6ba91db788c2b85333e3fc46f39b (patch) | |
| tree | 3fe9c0b6ca485d35b9549d25c6f250d1c1b40e5a | |
| parent | a0ec54ae073abd671bd43002eff0267f5fe8b306 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-279303adfc6d6ba91db788c2b85333e3fc46f39b.tar.gz | |
* CONTRIBUTE: Move send-email here from git-workflow.
| -rw-r--r-- | CONTRIBUTE | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | admin/notes/git-workflow | 14 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE index 7e697ddd89a..5821ee5caca 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTE +++ b/CONTRIBUTE @@ -234,7 +234,9 @@ by following links from http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=emacs . To email a patch you can use a shell command like 'git format-patch -1' to create a file, and then attach the file to your email. This nicely -packages the patch's commit message and changes. +packages the patch's commit message and changes. To send just one +such patch without additional remarks, you can use a command like +'git send-email --to=bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 0001-DESCRIPTION.patch'. ** Document your changes. diff --git a/admin/notes/git-workflow b/admin/notes/git-workflow index 40dfa6b7410..92dc79127e3 100644 --- a/admin/notes/git-workflow +++ b/admin/notes/git-workflow @@ -50,18 +50,8 @@ Sending patches =============== If you lack push access or would like feedback before pushing a patch, -you can send a patch file as a bug report. After committing your -change locally, do: - -git format-patch -1 - -This creates a file 0001-DESCRIPTION.patch containing the patch, where -DESCRIPTION comes from the first line of your patch's commit message. -You can attach the patch file to email that you send to -bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. You can also configure git to email patches -directly (see <http://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email>) and do: - -git send-email --to=bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 0001-DESCRIPTION.patch +you commit your change locally and then send a patch file as a bug report +as described in ../../CONTRIBUTE. Backporting to emacs-24 |