CONTRIBUTING: Update procedure for submitting patches
@@ -5,12 +5,20 @@ How to Get Your Change Into Ryu
Submitting a change
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-Send patches to ryu-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. Please don't use 'pull
-request' on github. We expect you to send a patch in Linux kernel
-development style. If you are not familiar with it, please read the
-following document:
+Send patches to ryu-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. Please don't use "Pull
+Request" on GitHub. We expect you to send patches in "git-format-patch"
+style.
-https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ # "N" means the number of commits to be included
+ $ git format-patch -s HEAD~N
+
+ # To add cover (e.g., [PATCH 0/X]), specify "--cover-letter" option
+ $ git format-patch -s --cover-letter HEAD~N
+
+ # You can send patches by "git send-email" command
+ $ git send-email --to="ryu-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" *.patch
Please check your changes with pep8 and run unittests to make sure
that they don't break the existing features. The following command
