From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Patches for some OS's. Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 19:37:17 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Boyd Lynn Gerber X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 05 20:39:44 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K4KNE-00077w-2r for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:39:44 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755762AbYFESir (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 14:38:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755099AbYFESir (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 14:38:47 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:38200 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755436AbYFESiq (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 14:38:46 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 05 Jun 2008 18:38:43 -0000 Received: from pacific.mpi-cbg.de (EHLO [10.8.0.10]) [141.5.10.38] by mail.gmx.net (mp029) with SMTP; 05 Jun 2008 20:38:43 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+y+Cx6bnSyCN+eAdCbxxrQE5yIgxCmil9fe4edQi RbPUTj63a08HMW X-X-Sender: gene099@racer In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote: > I have attached the patches necessary to use GIT on some Non Linux OS's. One might think that you could now use Git to generate the patches, and follow the conventions to submit them... For example, reviewing attached patches makes it unduly hard on the reviewers. For example, you do not have any explanation AKA commit message. For example, you use context diffs. See Documentation/SubmittingPatches for more hints how to get your patches integrated. Hth, Dscho