Re: [O] Contributing Without Patches ...

2013-09-14 Thread Samuel Wales
On 9/14/13, Suvayu Ali wrote: > (I took the liberty to re-order the quoting below to clarify my argument.) I found this funny. :) Samuel -- The Kafka Pandemic: http://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com The disease DOES progress. MANY people have died from it. ANYBODY can get it. Denmark: free

Re: [O] Contributing Without Patches ...

2013-09-14 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 10:09:42PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: > Suvayu Ali writes: (I took the liberty to re-order the quoting below to clarify my argument.) > > Isn't that two commands away: > > > > $ git remote add > > $ git pull > > … and if you are a maintainer, then you'll have hundresd

Re: [O] Contributing Without Patches ...

2013-09-14 Thread Achim Gratz
Suvayu Ali writes: > Isn't that two commands away: > > $ git remote add > $ git pull … and if you are a maintainer, then you'll have hundresds of remotes in no time. > If you use patches, you do lose committer information. You might want to check that assumption. You can do it in many ways,

Re: [O] Contributing Without Patches ...

2013-09-14 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Achim, On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 08:12:57PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: > Suvayu Ali writes: > > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 09:45:47AM -0600, Eric Schulte wrote: > >> Pull requests are a github thing, not a git thing. > > > > Well actually I think it is a Git thing. I believe it just says: my > > cha

Re: [O] Contributing Without Patches ...

2013-09-14 Thread Achim Gratz
Suvayu Ali writes: > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 09:45:47AM -0600, Eric Schulte wrote: >> Pull requests are a github thing, not a git thing. > > Well actually I think it is a Git thing. I believe it just says: my > changes are in the public branch , kindly pull from there; > eliminating the need to at

Re: [O] Contributing Without Patches ...

2013-09-14 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 09:45:47AM -0600, Eric Schulte wrote: > > > Is there some way for me to issue a pull-request? > > > > Pull requests are a github thing, not a git thing. Well actually I think it is a Git thing. I believe it just says: my changes are in the public branch , kindly pull fro

Re: [O] Contributing Without Patches ...

2013-09-14 Thread Eric Schulte
aditya siram writes: > Hi all > I've made a couple of changes to the latest source tree but I can't seem to > create patches because of some merges that happened subsequently. First you'll need to rebase [1] your changes over the current head of the git repository, then you can generate patches

Re: [O] Contributing Without Patches ...

2013-09-14 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 08:14:36AM -0500, aditya siram wrote: > I believe I may have fixed the problem. I submitted two patches yesterday. > Hopefully they're formatted ok. I tried applying them, seemed to go fine. Note: I did not review the patches. A small pointer: I'm guessing you are using t

Re: [O] Contributing Without Patches ...

2013-09-14 Thread aditya siram
I believe I may have fixed the problem. I submitted two patches yesterday. Hopefully they're formatted ok. -deech On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hello Aditya, > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 06:42:13PM -0500, aditya siram wrote: > > Hi all > > I've made a couple of changes to t

Re: [O] Contributing Without Patches ...

2013-09-13 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hello Aditya, On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 06:42:13PM -0500, aditya siram wrote: > Hi all > I've made a couple of changes to the latest source tree but I can't seem to > create patches because of some merges that happened subsequently. Is there > some way for me to issue a pull-request? What problems

[O] Contributing Without Patches ...

2013-09-13 Thread aditya siram
Hi all I've made a couple of changes to the latest source tree but I can't seem to create patches because of some merges that happened subsequently. Is there some way for me to issue a pull-request? -deech