[haiku-development] Re: Provide a patch
- From: John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:05:58 -0500
> From: "Ryan Leavengood" <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: lundi, 14 novembre 2011 22:10:08
>>
>> Our using Git now shouldn't affect patches except it makes the work
>> easier on patch writers since they can use a local Git branch for
>> their work and keep it up-to-date with Haiku master much more easily
>> with Git. Git at its core is really a patch management system anyhow.
>
> I can provide a patch using git the question is how generating it
> "git diff >my_feature.patch" or "git format-patch master --stdout >
> my_feature.patch" or another command?
To provide patches using git you should always work in a local branch
rather than master and make a patches relative to origin/master. You
should also pass the --no-prefix option so that the patch can be
applied at patch level 0 instead of the default 1. The command line
for this is:
git diff --no-prefix origin/master > my_feature.patch
> It should be useful to update that page:
> http://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/SubmittingPatches
Agreed, the page should be updated with the above information.
John Scipione
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