This page outlines a few tips to get started contributing patches to the beaker project. This page borrows heavily from beaker Patch Process.
Checkout The Code
It's always easier if you start from a git checkout, as git makes it very easy to do patches. You won't have to run "patch" manually and stuff like that, nor will you have to maintain a separate tree.
git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/autoqa.git
Keeping In Sync
If you want to update your checkout to the latest git source, from any branch:
git fetch origin git rebase origin/master
What Changed?
Now, make your changes. To see the differences you've made since last commit:
{{{ git diff HEAD }}}
At any time when you want to stay up to date with what's going on in the main repo you can do the fetch/rebase step as many times as you want. This makes all your changes be modified as if they were applied to the latest on the remote branch.
Oops, How to I Revert?
To revert your changes: {{{ git checkout -f # All changes git checkout -f Medusa/setup.py # A specific file }}}
Submitting Patches For Review
Once you have the checkout working like you want, generate a list of patches and submit for review to beaker-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org.
To generate a list of patches between your local checkout and a remove branch called origin/master, type:
{{{ git-format-patch origin/master }}}
This will output a list of one or more patches that can be downloaded and applied by developers with "git am".
Now, write a high level summary of your changes:
{{{ cat <<EOF> msg Subject: My favorite patches
Hello,
Included are several packages which implement feature X and have been thoroughly tested.
Thanks! EOF }}}
Finally, send these patches to beaker-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org for review:
{{{ git-send-email --no-chain-reply-to --quiet --to beaker-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org msg *.patch }}}