submitting contributions

[Carl Edquist]

Greetings Coreutils maintainers!

I have a few small contributions I am interested to submit to Coreutils.

Since I'm new to the list, I'd like to ask if there are any etiquette 
things I should have in mind going about this.

I have read over the HACKING document, but I am still a little fuzzy about 
what the process looks like to submit a patch to the list.  It discusses 
running 'git format-patch', but it's not clear if the patch output should 
be included in-line in the email, or as an attachment.  Basically, what 
does the normal process look like once I have a commit ready to submit?

And, is it OK to include a longer discussion in the email about the 
changes, besides what's in the commit message itself?


Thanks for any tips!

Carl