Re: How to properly send patches

[Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>]

On Apr  7 13:53, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 07 Apr 2016 13:42, Jakub Sejdak wrote:
> > I'm representing Phoenix Systems company. We are developing
> > Phoenix-RTOS for IoT.
> > We use newlib internally with our changes and now we want to make it public.
> > 
> > However, basing on the mailing list history, I'm a bit confused with
> > the procedure of sending patches.
> > I guess everything should be send via mail in a form of git diffs.
> > Some people paste it into message, some people attach files.
> 
> use `git send-email` to do it the right way.  if it's too big, the
> fallback is to use `git format-patch` and compress+attach it.
> 
> > Could anyone instruct me how should I do it properly? I have my
> > changes applied to repo cloned with read-only access.
> > Since this will be our first patch, it will be huge (141 new files).
> > Should I generate diff one for all changes or separate diff files for
> > each modified file.
> 
> if it's for a new port, a single patch that adds all the new code is
> fine.  you might want to break it up across projects -- one for newlib,
> one for libgloss, etc...

Actually it would be really nice for reviewing to split it also in
as many independent parts as possible.  That also simplifies to find
a bug via bisecting.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
Red Hat

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