Re: contributing to Emacs

[Po Lu]

Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:

> This is not the typical case anymore.  If a project is in git or
> similar, then the expectation is that you send a patches series for all
> but trivial changes.

Such expectations are based on the assumption that the user sending the
patch has access to the version control files associated with the
program being used, which is hardly guaranteed to be true.  I've never
seen Git repository files distributed together with a program.