On Thu, 02/16 12:47, Chad Joan wrote: > I am glad others are chiming in and might provide better solutions. > > Honestly, following the instructions at > http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch to-the-letter is quite > daunting to me, just to get one line of code changed. It might help if > that page had some kind of dead-simple example for trivial patches; > something like: > $ cd <QEMU directory> > $ git format-patch blah blah blah > $ maybe-some-other-command > $ # Now copy the contents of file xyz.patch into your email client and send > to qemu-devel@nongnu.org and qemu-triv...@nongnu.org
Makes sense in general except for the sending part - email clients tend to damage the patch when you copy and paste by wrapping long lines or messing up other things. But your point is taken, we should make the first (or a one-shot) contribution as easy as possible. Fam
