3 Quick Start

This chapter demonstrates the use of Patcher through a quick and basic setup. Adapt the example as you wish. See also XEmacs Development for an XEmacs specific sample setup. Let's make some assumptions first:

• You own a computer.
• You have the add-log library from the xemacs-base package, version 2.21 or later, installed on your system.
• You're working on a Git project called SuperProj.
• Your local clone of the Git repository is located in /home/me/superproj.
• You have commit access to this project.
• There is a mailing list for developers at superproj-devel@superproj.org.
• Your repository is up-to-date, but you've done some hacking in the sources that you'd like to commit.
• Since you're lazy, you didn't write the ChangeLog entries yet.

• Setting up Patcher: Making Patcher aware of your project
• Calling Patcher: Preparing a patch and a message
• Filling the ChangeLogs: Patcher only creates skeletons
• Filling the Message: You should insert the ChangeLog entries
• Committing the Patch: Applying your modifications to the archive
• Sending the Message: Telling people about your modifications