On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Mats Peterson <matsp888-at-yahoo....@ffmpeg.org> wrote: > On 12/16/2015 08:27 PM, Mats Peterson wrote: >> >> On 12/16/2015 08:26 PM, Kieran Kunhya wrote: >>>> >>>> I have said before that I'm not going to dwell into the complexities >>>> of Git, >>>> since it feels about as wasteful as programming a GUI in my book. If you >>>> can't accept the patches in their current format, so be it. Thanks >>>> for your >>>> time and understanding. >>> >>> >>> We accept git patches here and that's the way people send patches in >>> thousands of open source projects. >>> I wouldn't file my taxes written on a post-it note and we wouldn't >>> accept random patch formats. >>> >>> Kieran >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ffmpeg-devel mailing list >>> ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org >>> http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel >>> >> >> That's one bad analogy. >> >> Mats >> > > Listen, I shouldn't have to learn Git just to be able to contribute with > some patches. It's crazy. But alright then, suit yourself. I guess I'll have > to keep patching FFmpeg myself here in the meantime.
You don't have to learn a whole lot of git to be able to submit patches. There are enough guides and manpages that will help you along the way. The time you spent defending your position on not learning git was probably enough to learn how to use git to produce acceptable patches. Knowing how to use a modern version control system might also benefit you apart from being able to contribute to FFmpeg. > > > Mats > > -- > Mats Peterson > http://matsp888.no-ip.org/~mats/ > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-devel mailing list > ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org > http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel Regards, Stephan _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel