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diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index dea1fa8c9..fd9881f26 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -73,14 +73,25 @@ MIME-attached change being accepted, but it makes it more likely that it will be postponed. Exception: If your mailer is mangling patches then someone may ask -you to re-send them using MIME. +you to re-send them using MIME, that is OK. -Note that your maintainer does not subscribe to the git mailing -list (he reads it via mail-to-news gateway). If your patch is -for discussion first, send it "To:" the mailing list, and -optoinally "cc:" him. If it is trivially correct or after list -discussion reached consensus, send it "To:" the maintainer and -optionally "cc:" the list. +Do not PGP sign your patch, at least for now. Most likely, your +maintainer or other people on the list would not have your PGP +key and would not bother obtaining it anyway. Your patch is not +judged by who you are; a good patch from an unknown origin has a +far better chance of being accepted than a patch from a known, +respected origin that is done poorly or does incorrect things. + +If you really really really really want to do a PGP signed +patch, format it as "multipart/signed", not a text/plain message +that starts with '-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----'. That is +not a text/plain, it's something else. + +Note that your maintainer does not necessarily read everything +on the git mailing list. If your patch is for discussion first, +send it "To:" the mailing list, and optionally "cc:" him. If it +is trivially correct or after the list reached a consensus, send +it "To:" the maintainer and optionally "cc:" the list. (6) Sign your work @@ -143,6 +154,43 @@ I have seen: * Non empty context lines that have one extra whitespace at the beginning. +One test you could do yourself if your MUA is set up correctly is: + +* Send the patch to yourself, exactly the way you would, except + To: and Cc: lines, which would not contain the list and + maintainer address. + +* Save that patch to a file in UNIX mailbox format. Call it say + a.patch. + +* Try to apply to the tip of the "master" branch from the + git.git public repository: + + $ git fetch http://kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git master:test-apply + $ git checkout test-apply + $ git reset --hard + $ git applymbox a.patch + +If it does not apply correctly, there can be various reasons. + +* Your patch itself does not apply cleanly. That is _bad_ but + does not have much to do with your MUA. Please rebase the + patch appropriately. + +* Your MUA corrupted your patch; applymbox would complain that + the patch does not apply. Look at .dotest/ subdirectory and + see what 'patch' file contains and check for the common + corruption patterns mentioned above. + +* While you are at it, check what are in 'info' and + 'final-commit' files as well. If what is in 'final-commit' is + not exactly what you would want to see in the commit log + message, it is very likely that your maintainer would end up + hand editing the log message when he applies your patch. + Things like "Hi, this is my first patch.\n", if you really + want to put in the patch e-mail, should come after the + three-dash line that signals the end of the commit message. + Pine ---- |