[ANNOUNCE] libinput 0.4.0

[Lyude]

Ah, something else I forgot to mention:

git-am requires that the patches be in .mbox format, otherwise it won't
work properly. I don't think there's a way to do this in gmail since the
last time I checked, it can't save e-mails in that format. To actually
take advantage of this sort of thing you'd need to use a client of some
sort instead of the web interface.

On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 02:59 -0400, Lyude wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 23:40 -0700, Andrea Giammarchi wrote:
> > Yeah Peter, I know how to apply a patch and no, I don't have any of
> > them in my inbox, that's why I've asked what was wrong in my
> > process ... right now I'm on Gmail in chrome and wayland-devel channel
> > and zero attachment whatsoever.
> 
> If you're referring to e-mail attachments that's not what he's getting
> at. When you apply a patch off the mailing list you literally apply the
> e-mail itself, not an attachment. Hence why you'd use git-am instead of
> git-apply. git-am takes a saved copy of the e-mail (in mbox format),
> extracts the inline patch for you, and applies it to the tree. It's
> somewhat of a different process then just applying a plain old patches.
> 
> It's a very different system then most projects nowadays use, since most
> projects will just do pull requests and that sort of stuff :). So seeing
> misunderstandings like this isn't at all unusual or something to be
> disheartened about. We're not the only project to do it though, you'll
> see that the linux kernel requires you to submit patches in this manner
> too. It's mostly done because with organized projects like this, having
> the ability to easily review a patch inline is necessary to discuss
> changes in the protocol, point out typos and errors in patches, etc.
> There are alternatives for this, for example Github has the ability to
> allow you to comment inline on commits in pull requests, but a lot of
> people here just prefer to use their e-mail clients and whatever text
> editor they fancy.
> 
> Hope I clarified things a bit!
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Lyude

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