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--- dev:howto:contribute [2013/02/02 13:36] – [Contribution Process] jannis
+++ dev:howto:contribute [2013/02/02 13:39] – [Contribution Process] jannis
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 This will drop you in an editor where you are being asked to define a subject and a message for the patch set you are submitting. The editor window will roughly look like this:
-  From 451e2ab7ea3d595476ec5e57f33da8eef1661773 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+  From 451e2ab7ea3d595476ec5e57f33da8eef1661773 Thu Jan 10 08:30:27 2013
   From: Jannis Pohlmann
   Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:25:18 +0100
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   ***MESSAGE***
   ... auto-generated git log and diff stats ...
-Fill out the SUBJECT and MESSAGE by briefly describing what you are submitting. Then save the file and close the editor. ''git send-email'' will send the cover letter to the ''xfce4-dev@xfce.org'' mailing list, followed up by one mail per commit in your branch. These commit mails will each include the commit message and the commit diff as plain text.
+Fill out the SUBJECT and MESSAGE by briefly describing what you are submitting. Then save the file and close the editor. ''git send-email'' will send your patch set to the ''xfce4-dev@xfce.org'' mailing list in the form of the above cover letter email, followed by an additional email for each commit in your branch. These commit mails will each include the commit message and the commit diff as plain text.
 === 5. Review ===
 === 6. Merge ===

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