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Finally, send these patches to ''beaker-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org'' for review:
Finally, send these patches to ''autoqa-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org'' for review:


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yum install git-email.noarch
yum install git-email.noarch
/usr/libexec/git-core/git-send-email --no-chain-reply-to --quiet --to beaker-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org msg *.patch
/usr/libexec/git-core/git-send-email --no-chain-reply-to --quiet --to autoqa-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org msg *.patch
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Revision as of 09:47, 6 January 2010

This page outlines a few tips to get started contributing patches to the beaker project. This page borrows heavily from beaker Patch Process.

Checkout The Code

It's always easier if you start from a git checkout, as git makes it very easy to do patches. You won't have to run "patch" manually and stuff like that, nor will you have to maintain a separate tree.

git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/autoqa.git 

Keeping In Sync

If you want to update your checkout to the latest git source, from any branch:

git fetch origin
git rebase origin/master

What Changed?

Now, make your changes. To see the differences you've made since last commit:

git diff HEAD

At any time when you want to stay up to date with what's going on in the main repo you can do the fetch/rebase step as many times as you want. This makes all your changes be modified as if they were applied to the latest on the remote branch.

Oops, How to I Revert?

To revert your changes:

git checkout -f                     # All changes
git checkout -f Medusa/setup.py     # A specific file

Submitting Patches For Review

Once you have the checkout working like you want, generate a list of patches and submit for review to beaker-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org.

Record all the changes:

 git commit -a 

Generate a list of patches between your local checkout and a remove branch called origin/master, type:

/usr/libexec/git-core/git-format-patch origin/master

This will output a list of one or more patches that can be downloaded and applied by developers with "git am".

Now, write a high level summary of your changes:

cat <<EOF> msg
Subject: My favorite patches

Hello,

Included are several packages which implement feature X and have been thoroughly tested.

Thanks!
EOF

Finally, send these patches to autoqa-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org for review:

yum install git-email.noarch
/usr/libexec/git-core/git-send-email --no-chain-reply-to --quiet --to autoqa-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org msg *.patch