We need a doc to guide new contributors patch submission [was: Re: Working on -e trace]

[haris iqbal]

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Dmitry V. Levin <ldv at altlinux.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 07:46:01PM +0530, haris iqbal wrote:
>> On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 1:07 AM, haris iqbal <haris.phnx at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Fabien Siron <fabien.siron at epita.fr> wrote:
>> >> Quoting haris iqbal (2016-05-05 06:24:03)
>> >>> On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 1:43 AM, Fabien Siron <fabien.siron at epita.fr> wrote:
>> >>> > Hi,
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Quoting haris iqbal (2016-04-30 19:01:23)
>> >>> >> Hi,
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> So, this is my attempt at writing the wiki. Comments and suggestions are
>> >>> >> welcome.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > It should be maybe interesting to add the --reroll-count=X to format-patch
>> >>> > as it is very convenient to do patch versions.
>> >>>
>> >>> Yes. That looks useful. But, it seems a little detailed for a "Basic
>> >>> guide" like this one.
>> >>
>> >> It just replaces the subject field, both lines do the same thing:
>> >> $ git format-patch -1 <commit> --author="<Your Name>" \
>> >>   --subject-prefix="[PATCH v<version number>]"
>> >> $ git format-patch -1 <commit> --author="<Your Name>" \
>> >>   --reroll-count=<version number>
>> >>
>> >> It seems easier for me.
>> >
>> > Cool, I can change that.
>> >
>> >> By the way, if you want to do a patch of the last commit, <commit> can be
>> >> empty. For example:
>> >> $ git format-patch -1 --reroll-count=<version number>
>> >
>> > I put that because
>> >
>> > $ git format-patch -1 <commit>
>> >
>> > can be used for any single commit, be it the last or the nth.
>>
>> Hey, Just a reminder. Anything to be changed in this? Or this is all set?
>
> As this is a wiki markup, it seems natural to create a page at
> https://sourceforge.net/p/strace/wiki/.  Could you do it?

Done.

>
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