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But you only have to figure that out once. Amortized over many contributions the cost is essentially nothing.
by db48x 2y ago
But you only have to figure that out once. Amortized over many contributions the cost is essentially nothing.
- adastra22 2y agoWe only have so many hours in our sadly finite lives.
- solarkraft 2y agoBut the initial cost is what determines whether the first patch will ever be sent, so the amortization may never happen.
- db48x 2y agoI guess technically that’s true, but it cannot possibly take long to learn how to use `git format-patch`, and everyone should already know how to attach a file to an email. Even if you have to spend half an hour reading the entire output of `git format-patch --help`, is that really enough to prevent you from sending your first patch?
- adastra22 2y agoYes.
- db48x 2y agoOk, let me get this straight. You diagnosed a problem in the Linux kernel. You debugged it and figured out how to fix it. You edited the kernel source code, recompiled it, and tested your fix. After all that, if you have to read a man page you’ll just give up? That’s seriously lame.