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This document is a very brief description about how you can create a patch "the git way", so that it can be applied easily with 'git am'.
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Introduction
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This short tutorial is meant to help you help me in the task
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of having a maintainable and bug-free Window Maker.
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It assumes you have 'git' correctly installed and you have set
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the most basic configuration options via 'git config' (or by
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editing the $HOME/.gitconfig file yourself). See the end
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of this file for an example .gitconfig (which is the one
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I use).
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You should probably by now have already cloned my repository,
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but here is how you can do it just in case:
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# this is the preferred method (ie faster, native implementation)
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git clone git://repo.or.cz/wmaker-crm.git
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# use the http method only if are behind a firewall which blocks git://
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git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/wmaker-crm.git
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How to submit patches the git way
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Suppose you have a working copy of the git repo and you found
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a bug in Window Maker and you know how to fix it. This is
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what you can do to submit your patch in a way which will allow
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me to apply it quickly.
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# Optional: Create a new branch (just to be safe in case you screw up)
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git checkout -b my-new-branch
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Now you edit and save the files to fix the bug...
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# Optional: Check what you did, review etc
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git diff
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# if it looks good, commit your changes
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git commit -a
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# git will pop up the editor which you configured in .gitconfig so
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# that you will be able to write a commit log. It will use the 'vi'
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# editor otherwise.
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(write a _good_ and succinct commit log, explaining what you fixed etc)
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# Prepare the patch to submit to the mailing-list. This step will create
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# a file named 0001-subject-of-your-patch.patch from the last commit
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# (use HEAD~2 if you want patches for the last 2 commits etc)
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git format-patch HEAD~1
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After the above steps, you are ready to send the created .patch file
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to the mailing-list! Just send it as-is, and I will be able to apply
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it with
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# this is how I am going to apply your patch
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git am 0001-subject-of-your-patch.patch
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and it will automatically append your commit to the repo, with the
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proper authorship, date, subject, commit log etc.
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Example .gitconfig
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[user]
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name = Erwin Schrodinger
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email = schrodinger@gmail.com
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[core]
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editor = xjed
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[status]
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showUntrackedFiles = no
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[color]
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branch = auto
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status = auto
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diff = auto
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ui = auto
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[apply]
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whitespace = fix
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