[linuxtools-dev] Dealing with git contributions

[Andrew Overholt <overholt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I wanted to make people aware of a relatively new way of dealing with
contributions that doesn't involve patches attached to bugs:

  http://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Resources/Handling_Git_Contributions

The gist of it is that a contributor can create a bug with a pointer to
a SHA-1 in a public repository and request that a committer pull from
that.  Assuming the contributor has stated that they have written all of
it, etc., it would then be as simple as adding a remote for it, fetching
that remote, then cherry-pick'ing the specified commit.  Don't forget
that patches > 250 lines must still have a CQ opened.

As usual, consult the excellent EGit user guide for help on any of these
steps:

  http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide

Thanks,

Andrew