Re: [PATCH gitk] gitk: add README.md with contribution guidelines

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Aug 20, 2025, 21:03 UTC
Message-ID: <70e08a97-ca6a-4899-b779-1ed436b76fb7@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq349laeyb.fsf@gitster.g>

On Wed, Aug 20, 2025, at 22:57, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Michael Rappazzo <rappazzo@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> +#### Creating and Sending Patches
>> +After committing your changes:
>> +```bash
>> +git format-patch -1 --subject-prefix="PATCH gitk"
>> +git send-email --to=git@vger.kernel.org --cc=j6t@kdbg.org *.patch
>> +```
>
> Just being curious, but does the project strongly discourage a
> multi-patch topic?
>
> It would be really nice if you add "review them here before you run
> send-email" step between these two commands ;-).

I alwyays use

    git format-patch ... -opatchez
    cat patchez/* | less

Because sending out something weird to a mailing list gives me the chills. (And there might be format-patch bugs.)

-- 
Kristoffer Haugsbakk