On 2019-12-10, at 12:54 PM, Nirmal Khedkar <nirmal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm Nirmal Khedkar, student from India. > > I wish to be a long-term contributer for Git and am a GSoC 2020 aspirant too. > I'd love to contribute to Git because I love it and (in my view), its the > mother of all FOSS projects out there, because most of them are built using > Git. > > I wanted to know whether the changes I make within the git/git repo (which > I've cloned onto my system) will also affect Git in my system overall. By itself, no. However, if you compile and install that new build, then it will. Contributing to git requires going through ... well, actually, I'm not sure. What I do know is that you are cautioned against using a GUI client because they can/will reformat lines, and sadly trying to figure out how to configure command-line mail on a modern gui-based unix-like distribution is beyond me (unless I throw out the entire system email system and replace it with ... I think Exim was the last sendmail replacement I used, not sure what the current best replacement is.) > > I'm generally not reckless, but since Git is the backbone to all my projects, > I cant help but be concerned about this :) > Thank you (and apologies if this is the wrong place to post such doubt). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Git for human beings" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/git-users/482a0b3f-ff54-4c6b-8c9e-fdf45932179f%40googlegroups.com. --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/git-users/37D72BD8-DF42-47C3-8C92-81CCCB15AB04%40gmail.com.
