1. Clone gplhost repository
apt-get install git-core curl
git clone http://git.gplhost.com/dtc.git
Wait for a while, the clone can take quite some time.
2. Modify the sources and commit
After the clone, cd in the dtc folder, and do any modification you want. When done, do:
git commit -a
enter you comment in the editor that pops up, save and quit. For this example, we will say that you have entered: "Changed changelog" as the comment.
3. Create and send the resulting patch files
You will need to call git-format-patch with the latest git entry as parameter. To find this entry, go here:
http://git.gplhost.com/gitweb/?p=dtc.git;a=summary
put your mouse over the commit link, and see the h= parameter of the link. The URL should be like this:
http://git.gplhost.com/gitweb/?p=dtc.git;a=commit;h=5688eb505af0a690d057c8b7a25bc762685b4d61
or do:
git log
to see the last cryptic number that you will need to use.
use this in the git-format-patch command:
git-format-patch 5688eb505af0a690d057c8b7a25bc762685b4d61
This will show something like this:
zigo@GPLHost:x300>_ ~/sources/dtc$ git-format-patch 5688eb505af0a690d057c8b7a25bc762685b4d61
0001-Changed-changelog.txt
Then simply send the 0001-Changed-changelog.txt (or more, if there's more files if you do more than one commit).
4. Where to send the result
Best is to subscribe to the dev mailing list. Send a mail to dtcdev-subscribe at gplhost.sg to register. If your patch is bigger than 16k, then best is to send the files in any web server that you have access to, and send a link to it in the list with your comments in the body of the message saying what the patch does.
I hope this short text will help to have more contributions.
