[Rpm-maint] What's the best way to submit patches?

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Fri Dec 15 15:10:44 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 09:47 -0500, James Bowes wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> As I was re-applying my changes against the actual hg.rpm.org, I got to 
> thinking: what's the best way to propose or receive feedback to a change 
> with mercurial?
> 
>  From what I can see, there is:
> 
> * hg export, to make a plaintext patch
> * hg bundle, to make a binary(?) changeset file
> * publishing your hg branch somewhere on the Internet
> 
> What do people prefer? 

Initially my preference would be a patch series ala quilt, or hg export
for discreet change sets in logical chunks to list for discussion.

Paul




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