From: Ronald Ramos <ronjoe223@gmail.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: [PATCH setup] Update README
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2016 11:48:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d6669ac9-edae-a4ab-2358-c45f8e9324c9@gmail.com> (raw)
commit 3863a3650acc481e62ee34bcc2bd836c301baaaf
Author: Ronald Ramos <ronjoe223@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Jul 31 07:14:42 2016 -0400
* README: Included git download URI. Also updated patch-submission
instructions to refer to online manual.
diff --git a/README b/README
index 2582c05..c394e02 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ to make changes to the build system.
Build commands:
+0) If building from git, obtain this project's code:
+ $ git clone git://sourceware.org/git/cygwin-apps/setup.git
+ $ cd setup
+
1) Configure using this option
$ /path/to/setup/bootstrap.sh
This will automatically rebuild configure files and run configure
@@ -59,12 +63,14 @@ as a guide.
SUBMITTING A PATCH:
-------------------
-As per cygwin1.dll and many GNU projects:
+Follow the general directions given in the Cygwin contributions document:
+
+ https://cygwin.com/contrib.html
+
+The appropriate mailing list for this project is cygwin-apps
+(rather than cygwin-patches). Thus, the appropriate final command would be:
-No changelog in the patch itself.
-Attach the changelog to the email.
-Use, at a minimum "diff -uN" when constructing diffs for submission.
-As much as possible please provide only one goal per patch.
+ $ git send-email --to="cygwin-patches@cygwin.com"
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