Re: contributing to Emacs

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Fri 23 Jun 2023 at 03:06PM +08, Po Lu wrote:

> 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.

Not guaranteed, but it's the default.

If a project is in git, and you want to contribute, you 'git clone'.

-- 
Sean Whitton