On 06/17/2014 02:46 PM, Elias Persson wrote: > On 2014-06-17 13:45, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> $ git clone https://git.centos.org/git/centos-git-common.git >> $ git clone https://git.centos.org/git/rpms/httpd.git >> $ cd httpd >> $ git branch -a > > Why would listing branches be necessary? mostly as a FYI, some repos dont have a c7 tree, ofcourse people are likely not trying to submit patches for those either... > >> $ git checkout c7 > > <snip> > >> $ git rev-parse HEAD > `whoami`.start-point > <snip> >> $ git format-patch $(cat `whoami`.start-point) >> > > These could be replace with `git format-patch origin/c7` > (or `git format-patch "@{upstream}"`). if that is where one starts from, internally we pass git repos around so we dont always need to start from HEAD. I would assume that as people get friendlier with this, they will just git branch my-branch etc and not do edits in the c7/ branch ( given that they cant push back to c7 anyway ). please, submit patches that make this process easier as a getting-started guide. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc