From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adam Spiers Subject: [PATCH 0/3] Help newbie git developers avoid obvious pitfalls Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 19:35:58 +0000 Message-ID: <1355686561-1057-1-git-send-email-git@adamspiers.org> References: <7vobl0804s.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> To: git list X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Dec 16 20:36:39 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TkK0r-0000fB-Je for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 20:36:37 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753334Ab2LPTgF (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Dec 2012 14:36:05 -0500 Received: from coral.adamspiers.org ([85.119.82.20]:41237 "EHLO coral.adamspiers.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753134Ab2LPTgE (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Dec 2012 14:36:04 -0500 Received: from localhost (4.8.9.4.4.5.7.d.4.0.6.a.a.2.0.b.0.0.0.0.b.1.4.6.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa [IPv6:2001:8b0:641b:0:b02a:a604:d754:4984]) by coral.adamspiers.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E97A62E5D5 for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 19:36:01 +0000 (GMT) X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.12.1.396.g53b3ea9 In-Reply-To: <7vobl0804s.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I fell into various newbie pitfalls when submitting my first patches to git, despite my best attempts to adhere to documented guidelines. This small patch series attempts to reduce the chances of other developers making the same mistakes I did. Adam Spiers (3): SubmittingPatches: add convention of prefixing commit messages Documentation: move support for old compilers to CodingGuidelines Makefile: use -Wdeclaration-after-statement if supported Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 8 ++++++++ Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 21 ++++++++------------- Makefile | 7 ++++++- 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) -- 1.7.12.1.396.g53b3ea9