I wanted to share a link to this blog post that Jakob shared on the Samza dev mailing list:
http://ariejan.net/2009/10/26/how-to-create-and-apply-a-patch-with-git/ Quoting Jakob: > Two benefits over the current, svn-style patches: > 1) The patches include the author, who is credit in the commit log (I've > been doing this manually, but it's a pain) > 2) The patch application and commit happens as a single step, helping to > avoid dunce-level errors like mine from yesterday. > > Thoughts on this? Josh is this the practice you all follow in Apache Crunch? If people agree we should add these instructions to the website for those who want to contribute. -Matt
