On 30/04/2022 1:10 p.m., Jeff Newmiller wrote:
Re revision numbers... yes, you might have to take care to handle aligning the
baseline code against which the patch was generated manually. Given that
outside contributions would tend to start from specific releases though this
shouldn't be too
Generating patch files is one of the most fundamental capabilities of git.
Changes to the Linux kernel are (almost?) universally submitted via patch files
generated from git.
Re git and empty directories... git is structurally incapable of recording them
in the repo. A common workaround is to
On 30/04/2022 9:53 a.m., Patrick Schratz wrote:
If that is the case, why not contribute to the documentation? That
is the whole point of an open source project after all.
Because often it is not easily accessible, e.g. living in an ancient SVN
repo or lacking (an easy) and clear
