Thanks, I finally managed to submit my patch with your instructions. However, I see that the "Less secure apps" setting will no longer be available in a month. What do you plan on doing then? (I see you also use gmail)
On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 11:53 AM Leo Izen <leo.i...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/3/22 00:12, Traian Coza wrote: > > Hi! I am new to contributing to FFmpeg, and I have a technical question. > > > > I'm trying to submit a patch, but it's a fairly large patch, which I've > > made in multiple commits. I don't know how to generate the email for this > > patch. The example command given on the website (with format-patch) only > > generates the email for a single commit. I've searched the web and I > don't > > really see an easy way to do it. Can someone help me out with this? > > > I find the easiest way to do it for me is to generate the patches with > "git format-patch" and then send them with "git send-email". > > Once you have your patches atop the master branch, you can create a > directory called outgoing/ and then run something like: > > git format-patch -M -o outgoing/ --cover-letter origin/master > > In this case, --cover-letter generates a cover letter, which you then > edit to give a short blurb of what your patch set looks like. Then when > you run git send-email outgoing/* you will have the patches embedded as > replies to that cover letter email. "origin/master" is the hash of the > last commit *before* yours, but it can by any ref, such as > origin/master, not just a commit hash. You can also just substitute the > commit hash there if your repositories/branches are named differently. > > Since you use Gmail (at least, from your email address), you will need > to enable Less Secure Apps if you have two-factor authentication > disabled. If you have it enabled, you will have to generate an App > Password for git-send-email, and then use that as the account password > instead of your own. > > - Leo Izen (thebombzen) > > > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-devel mailing list > ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org > https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe". > _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
