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Offtopic: Using git-send-email for patch sets instead of of a MUA? (Re: [PATCH] Pcbnew menu bar)

 

Hi,

I'm not an active developer of KiCad regarding to the source code, but
may I suggest to look at git-send-email [1] that almost solves such
problems with embedded patchsets. And mostly for all systems you are
working with, I'm not sure about Windows but should be possible by using
msmtp [2].

Am 14.02.2018 um 22:55 schrieb Michael Kavanagh:
> Okay thanks. Also I think I messed up even the simple first patch (git
> n00b over here). Please await an updated patch set.

This problem isn't new and not only happen to KiCad. The Linux kernel is
dealing with such challenges for a long time. Since the introducing of
Git as the new VCS for the linux kernel development there was also
introduced a perl script after some times that is mailing a set of patches.

There are plenty good websites out there which describing the usage of
git-send-email [3]. It's free software so don't hesitate to copy and
past. :-)
For testing you can simply mail patches or sets of patches to yourself.

I'd glad to help to write something for the website on kicad-pcb.org.

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email
[2]
https://jacmoe.dk/blog/2013/january/how-to-send-emails-with-msmtp-on-windows-or-linux-or-mac-os-x
[3]
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/HowToUseGitSendEmail/

https://www.denx.de/wiki/view/U-Boot/Patches#General_Patch_Submission_Rules
    https://gist.github.com/jasonkarns/4354421
    https://felipec.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/git-send-email-tricks/

http://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2017/05/16/submitting-your-first-patch-to-the-linux-kernel-and-responding-to-feedback/

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Regards
Carsten Schoenert


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