On Thursday, November 22, 2012, Justin Mclean wrote: > Hi, > > >> Seems a of of the conversation is still around accepting pull requests, > >> without github there will be no pull requests right? > Outlining the process for non committers (ie what series of git commands > is needed to run) would be useful as I think the expectation is currently > that no patch files are required. It's easy enough to generate a patch file > from a pull request but a little harder if you need to manually generate it > (especially to someone unfamiliar with git). > > Also with committers applying patches, what's teh process? Should we use > git am --signoff OR git apply? > > > I'll make sure to talk about that at the connect meeting and in the wiki. > Sounds good to me. > > Thanks, > Justin
All the feedback has been great and it'll help me prepare something as comprehensive as I can. In regard to manually applying patches I've only used 'git am', but I will read up on the difference between it and apply. I do know that the --signOff flag was introduced specifically for the workflows that the Linux kernel uses. -omar
