[CentOS-devel] Facing issue while Contributing code to existing Git repos

Wed Feb 13 18:16:49 UTC 2019
Troy Dawson <tdawson at redhat.com>

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:15 AM Amarjeet Singh <amarjeetxc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> According to the page you have linked above
>> "You should now have files in the working directory named as
>> 0001-<commit>.patch and 0002-<commit>.patch etc; These files should be
>> emailed to the centos-devel list as attachments ( ie, not inline in
>> the email body ). Include information about what change you are
>> requesting and if needed include information on bugs.centos.org that
>> points to the list archive page that has your email from
>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel."
>
>
> Yes, I have the file genereated but this file includes the whole project ( extracted tar ) instead of taking the changes that I did.
>

Ah ... I see what you are saying now.
I wish I could be of more help, but I'll have to leave it for others.

>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:38 PM Troy Dawson <tdawson at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 9:50 AM Amarjeet Singh <amarjeetxc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Team,
>> >
>> > I am trying to contribute to the existing Git repos.
>> >
>> > I have followed the process from the below link
>> >
>> > https://wiki.centos.org/Sources
>> >
>> > [user at host]$ git clone  https://git.centos.org/git/rpms/kernel.git
>> > cd kernel
>> > # let's work on the centos7 kernel
>> > [user at host]$ git checkout c7
>> > [user at host]$ ~/bin/get_sources.sh
>> > # switch to the local tree to edit
>> > [user at host]$ git checkout -b my-kernel
>> > # make edits to SPEC file, etc
>> > [user at host]$ git commit -m 'my local change' -a
>> >
>> >
>> > This command    ~/bin/get_sources.sh  has downloaded the xxxx.tar.gz file in the SOURCES directory.
>> >
>> > Now I have extracted the tar file and did the changes.
>> >
>> > At this stage If I commit then I have to include all the extracted files.
>> >
>> > If I run git format-patch c7  it generate the file which includes all the files.
>> >
>> > Please  guide me how to contribute  to the existing GIT REPOS.
>> >
>>
>> According to the page you have linked above
>> "You should now have files in the working directory named as
>> 0001-<commit>.patch and 0002-<commit>.patch etc; These files should be
>> emailed to the centos-devel list as attachments ( ie, not inline in
>> the email body ). Include information about what change you are
>> requesting and if needed include information on bugs.centos.org that
>> points to the list archive page that has your email from
>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel."
>>
>> I've never done that, so beyond that, hopefully someone else can explain.
>>
>> Troy
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