Branch: refs/heads/document-messages Author: Colomban Wendling ban@herbesfolles.org Committer: Frank Lanitz frank@frank.uvena.de Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2012 20:08:47 Commit: 084f43ed71151adb1fa9efa842d5b055e4165e83 https://github.com/geany/geany/commit/084f43ed71151adb1fa9efa842d5b055e4165e...

Log Message: ----------- Suggest to provide git-formatted patches rather than `git diff` ones

Modified Paths: -------------- doc/geany.txt

Modified: doc/geany.txt 11 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) =================================================================== @@ -4998,6 +4998,17 @@ After you are happy with your changes, create a patch e.g. by using::

% git diff geany.txt > foo.patch

+or even better, by creating a Git-formatted patch which will keep authoring +and description data, by first committing your changes (doing so in a fresh +new branch is recommended for `matser` not to diverge from upstream) and then +using git format-patch:: + + % git checkout -b my-documentation-changes # create a fresh branch + % git commit geany.txt + Write a good commit message... + % git format-patch HEAD^ + % git checkout master # go back to master + and then submit that file to the mailing list for review.

Also you can clone the Geany repository at GitHub and send a pull request.

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