Re: contributing to Emacs

[Konstantin Kharlamov]

On Sun, 2023-06-18 at 20:10 +0800, Po Lu wrote:
> Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru> writes:
> 
> > Well, you see, the "sending patches" section has no mention that a series is
> > unwelcome. And Emacs is the unique project where a squashed patch with many
> > commits is preferred over a series.
> > 
> > If series is indeed unwelcome, it would be better to reflect in "sending
> > patches" section and provide copy-paste instructions for the people to
> > quickly
> > squash their commits before sending to ML (and I think something needs to be
> > figured out about commit messages too in this case). Because when you are
> > developing, it is easier to separate changes to distinct commits to make
> > sure
> > that if something break you know what exactly change was the reason to it.
> > Even
> > if these commits will have to be squashed later.
> 
> What's a ``squashed patch''?

When you have multiple patches squashed into one.

> Anyway, patches can only be generated by the VCS if the user has access
> to the Emacs version control files, which is hardly given.  So prefering
> ordinary diffs leads to more people being able to work on Emacs, not
> less.

How do you get latest upstream code without access to VCS?