On Aug 10, 2012, at 8:34 AM, Geert Janssens <janssens-ge...@telenet.be> wrote:

> On 10-08-12 15:54, John Ralls wrote:
>> On Aug 10, 2012, at 5:22 AM, reubano <reub...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> So according to the wiki[1] should we follow directions for Non-Committers
>>> or Committers? I would think the best option would be to clone and then
>>> submit pull requests but I'm not sure if things are setup to work that way.
>>> 
>>> [1] http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git
>> ... Even though the "Author" tag gets stripped by subversion, please use git 
>> format-patch to create your patches so that we get your commit messages. ...
>> 
> And particularly because the "Author" tag gets stripped by subversion, I'd 
> recommend adding a line
> "Patch by xyz" directly in the comment. That way, we still know the original 
> author even in svn.
> I try to add this line every time I apply a patch by someone else, though I 
> sometimes forget. If it's in the comment already, there's no risk of 
> forgetting it.
> 

Good point.

I've added a section to the Git wiki page with some guidance for preparing and 
submitting patches.

Regards,
John Ralls



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