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authorDerek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>2013-01-06 13:10:27 -0500
committerDerek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>2013-01-07 14:55:48 -0500
commitb5f9b9ac3681acb06d95530f34660ba9fe225305 (patch)
tree34f8889a968a9e4689c8b36848fd5676db7da35c /doc/developer.texi
parent9a00374cb4512a58a1fee366b850dfa87c76e1f3 (diff)
doc: Merge disjointed bits about emailing patches
We obviously prefer git-send-email(1), and the disjointed nature of the two statements was misleading. Signed-off-by: Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>
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@@ -362,12 +362,6 @@ The tool is located in the tools directory.
Run the @ref{Regression Tests} before submitting a patch in order to verify
it does not cause unexpected problems.
-Patches should be posted as base64 encoded attachments (or any other
-encoding which ensures that the patch will not be trashed during
-transmission) to the
-@uref{https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel, libav-devel}
-mailing list.
-
It also helps quite a bit if you tell us what the patch does (for example
'replaces lrint by lrintf'), and why (for example '*BSD isn't C99 compliant
and has no lrint()'). This kind of explanation should be the body of the
@@ -376,8 +370,12 @@ commit message.
Also please if you send several patches, send each patch as a separate mail,
do not attach several unrelated patches to the same mail.
-Use @code{git send-email} when possible since it will properly send patches
-without requiring extra care.
+Patches should be posted to the
+@uref{https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel, libav-devel}
+mailing list. Use @code{git send-email} when possible since it will properly
+send patches without requiring extra care. If you cannot, then send patches
+as base64-encoded attachments, so your patch is not trashed during
+transmission.
Your patch will be reviewed on the mailing list. You will likely be asked
to make some changes and are expected to send in an improved version that