[Piuparts-devel] [patch] clarify how to contribute

Vincent McIntyre vincent.mcintyre at csiro.au
Thu Aug 29 09:15:01 UTC 2013


Hi

I'm interested in trying to do something about #354842 but it will
probably take me a while to work up to that.

I have a question about the best way to submit work for review;
is the patch below even vaguely what you are after?
My git-fu is not the greatest...

Kind regards
Vince

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 CONTRIBUTING | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 CONTRIBUTING

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..86163c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+To submit changes to piuparts, there are two approaches:
+
+Small changes / new submitters - make a topic branch based off 'bikeshed'
+  git clone git://anonscm.debian.org/piuparts/piuparts.git
+  git checkout origin/bikeshed
+  git checkout -b <topicname> 
+  <edits>
+  git commit -a
+  git format-patch -M origin/bikeshed
+
+Larger changes / experienced submitters
+  Branch from bikeshed or other as appropriate
+  Send a git pull request
+
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1.8.4

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