Re: guile contributor setup

[Neil Jerram]

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu 02 Feb 2012 15:44, Catonano <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I'm considering the idea of trying to contribute some Scheme code to
>> guile, and I'm running into some issues with emails, patches, git and
>> the such.
>>
>> What's the common setup you people use ?
>
> I use git, from the command line and from Emacs.  When I use it from
> Emacs, I use magit: http://philjackson.github.com/magit/
>
> I mostly use magit to commit, and otherwise the command line to update,
> rebase, etc.  I use gitk sometimes to get a graphical representations of
> "the big picture".
>
> When I make a patch and want to mail it, I use magit to commit it with a
> nice log.  Then on the command-line I do "git format-patch
> origin/stable-2.0..HEAD" and that spits out one file for each commit I
> made that is not in upstream stable-2.0.  I then attach them to mails.

FWIW, 100% snap!

    Neil