Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Need help submitting a patch

[Traian Coza <traian.coza@gmail.com>]

Thanks, I finally managed to submit my patch with your instructions.
However, I see that the "Less secure apps" setting will no longer be
available in a month. What do you plan on doing then? (I see you also use
gmail)

On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 11:53 AM Leo Izen <leo.izen@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/3/22 00:12, Traian Coza wrote:
> > Hi! I am new to contributing to FFmpeg, and I have a technical question.
> >
> > I'm trying to submit a patch, but it's a fairly large patch, which I've
> > made in multiple commits. I don't know how to generate the email for this
> > patch. The example command given on the website (with format-patch) only
> > generates the email for a single commit. I've searched the web and I
> don't
> > really see an easy way to do it. Can someone help me out with this?
> >
> I find the easiest way to do it for me is to generate the patches with
> "git format-patch" and then send them with "git send-email".
>
> Once you have your patches atop the master branch, you can create a
> directory called outgoing/ and then run something like:
>
> git format-patch -M -o outgoing/ --cover-letter origin/master
>
> In this case, --cover-letter generates a cover letter, which you then
> edit to give a short blurb of what your patch set looks like. Then when
> you run git send-email outgoing/* you will have the patches embedded as
> replies to that cover letter email. "origin/master" is the hash of the
> last commit *before* yours, but it can by any ref, such as
> origin/master, not just a commit hash. You can also just substitute the
> commit hash there if your repositories/branches are named differently.
>
> Since you use Gmail (at least, from your email address), you will need
> to enable Less Secure Apps if you have two-factor authentication
> disabled. If you have it enabled, you will have to generate an App
> Password for git-send-email, and then use that as the account password
> instead of your own.
>
> - Leo Izen (thebombzen)
>
>
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