[PATCH] xfree86: fix not reached code in tty code

Vignatti Tiago (Nokia-D/Helsinki) tiago.vignatti at nokia.com
Wed Apr 21 08:43:34 PDT 2010


On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:19:07AM +0200, ext Peter Hutterer wrote:
> 
> stack the reviewed patches into a for-keith branch, push them to your $HOME
> on people.freedesktop.org and then send Keith a pull request.
> 
> what I usually do is 
> 'git request-pull master git://people.freedesktop.org/~whot/xserver.git for-keith > pull-req'
> and then 'mutt -H pull-req'
> 
> note that this requires master to be something close-ish to upstream, if
> you've diverged in other ways just insert the last sha1 instead of "master".
> in my case, master is usually origin/master from where I started
> development, so origin/master may have moved on since.
> 
> given that you already have the patches in a tree, it's faster to do this
> than to wait for Keith to apply and push them, he has pull requests on
> precedence AFAICT.

very useful information, Peter. Thanks.

I was thinking maybe to drop this in our wiki. Do you think there's a better
place than here:

http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/SubmittingPatches

Cheers,
                            Tiago


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