Re: contributing to Emacs

[Po Lu]

Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru> writes:

> Well, you see, the "sending patches" section has no mention that a series is
> unwelcome. And Emacs is the unique project where a squashed patch with many
> commits is preferred over a series.
>
> If series is indeed unwelcome, it would be better to reflect in "sending
> patches" section and provide copy-paste instructions for the people to quickly
> squash their commits before sending to ML (and I think something needs to be
> figured out about commit messages too in this case). Because when you are
> developing, it is easier to separate changes to distinct commits to make sure
> that if something break you know what exactly change was the reason to it. 
> Even
> if these commits will have to be squashed later.

What's a ``squashed patch''?

Anyway, patches can only be generated by the VCS if the user has access
to the Emacs version control files, which is hardly given.  So prefering
ordinary diffs leads to more people being able to work on Emacs, not
less.