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<FONT FACE="Monaco, Courier New"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Hey Guys, there seems to be a rash of people uploading patchs to Jira lately that just do not work...<BR>
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So lets hit this one really quick...<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><OL><LI><FONT FACE="Monaco, Courier New"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>if you are patching a generated File like the Makefile or configure script make sure you are patching the files they are generated from... ie: configure.in for configure...
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Monaco, Courier New"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>don’t try to diff 2 separate trees... ‘git diff > /tmp/my.fancy.patch.txt’ from the root of your fs source checkout will give you a plain text file of the patch suitable for uploading to jira.
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Monaco, Courier New"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Please include all information you have on the jira and what problem/feature the patch addresses. Don’t just say “here’s a patch” and expect someone to look at it without knowing what it is.
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Monaco, Courier New"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>If a commiter comments on your jira that you need to freshen the patch please do so in a timely fashion or your patch will go back to the bottom of the queue as they will move on to something else... This isnt ignoring your efforts, but developers tend to get distracted easily with new shiny objects so getting back to them quickly helps tremendously.<BR>
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These simple things will help keep the devs from going crazy!<BR>
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Now for you guys that use git on a regular basis, before you blow a gasket, yes this is very basic, and is intended to be so... Yes there are other (and possibly arguable better ways to generate a patch, but this way is the simplest for people not familiar with git) <BR>
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Ken<BR>
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