PATCH addition of /usr/local/bin/ in 'get_iplayer.cgi'

Mark Carroll mtbc at ixod.org
Thu Nov 6 00:57:28 PST 2014


Owen Smith <owen.smith at cantab.net> writes:

> Why bother with patches? Why not just check the source file out, change it, and check it back in again with the change in? Or does git not work like conventional source control systems?

That's pretty much how it works. With GitHub, you just check the code
back in with your patch (push your new commit to a branch) -- but you
push it to your own branch and open a "pull request" that asks for the
commit to be merged into the master branch of dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer.
The git format-patch stuff by e-mail works just fine too though.

-- Mark



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