To email a patch you can use a shell command like 'git format-patch -1'
to create a file, and then attach the file to your email. This nicely
-packages the patch's commit message and changes.
+packages the patch's commit message and changes. To send just one
+such patch without additional remarks, you can use a command like
+'git send-email --to=bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 0001-DESCRIPTION.patch'.
** Document your changes.
===============
If you lack push access or would like feedback before pushing a patch,
-you can send a patch file as a bug report. After committing your
-change locally, do:
-
-git format-patch -1
-
-This creates a file 0001-DESCRIPTION.patch containing the patch, where
-DESCRIPTION comes from the first line of your patch's commit message.
-You can attach the patch file to email that you send to
-bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. You can also configure git to email patches
-directly (see <http://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email>) and do:
-
-git send-email --to=bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 0001-DESCRIPTION.patch
+you commit your change locally and then send a patch file as a bug report
+as described in ../../CONTRIBUTE.
Backporting to emacs-24