[LEDE-DEV] Please help with submitting contributions

[Alberto Bursi]

On 03/07/2017 05:48 PM, Mauro Mozzarelli wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I would like to make contributions to lede, but so far I bumped into a
> series of obstacles.
>
> So far I tried the following:
>
>
> git format-patch, then copy and paste into email -> was not accepted
>
> git send-email -> I do not know whether the patch was accepted, I did
> not receive any feedback
>
>
> Now I am trying also to follow what is on this page:
>
> https://lede-project.org/submitting-patches
>
> Under "Working with github"
>
> git clone https://github.com/lede-project/source.git
> git checkout -b <branch-name>
>   <make changes to files>
> git commit --signoff
> git push --all
>

That should be done on your account's fork of LEDE source, not on the 
lede repo directly. But the wiki paragraph is rather short and unclear.

I've just edited that paragraph to be actually useful.

https://lede-project.org/submitting-patches#working_with_github

-Alberto