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Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Porting savane from PHP to Perl on version


From: socketpro
Subject: Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Porting savane from PHP to Perl on version 3.1-cleanup
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 20:37:22 -0400

> Instead of sending a new tar.gz file, I think the preferred way is to use 
> 'git format-patch' to generate a list of patches, then compress them with XZ 
> and send to the mailing list.
> 
> Example:
> 
> ## If you started with this repository
> git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/administration/savane.git
> cd savane
> 
> ## Then changes some files, and committed them with "git commit"
> $ git commit
> # change more files
> $ git commit
> # change more files
> $ git commit
> 
> ## Now, to generate a patch containing your last three commits:
> $ git format-patch -3 --stdout | xz > 2014-09-05.patch.xz
> 
> Then send the file '2014-09-05.patch.xz' to the mailing list.
> The file should not be too big, and it will be easy for other developers to 
> import your changes.
> 
> - Assaf

Okay. I did "git format-patch -30" since I had 30 commits. I'm not that good 
with git yet. The .xz patch is attached.

Attachment: savane-admin-2014-09-15.patch.xz
Description: application/xz


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