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From: david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd)
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: TINYCHANGE cookie
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 09:45:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fw3gr4as.fsf@adboyd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20121208115635.GB12197@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com

Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 07:43:42PM -0500, J. David Boyd wrote:
>> 
>> What is a TINYCHANGE cookie?  I see it alluded to in many messages about
>> patches for the Org code base, but googling it has left me with no
>> information.
>> 
>
> If you submit a patch, and it adds less than 20 lines (or is mostly a
> rewrite of some form) then you add that in the commit message so that
> the patch can be accepted without you needing to sign the FSF copyright
> release papers.  Of course if you have signed the papers, then you need
> not be concerned about it.
>
> HTH

It was the word 'cookie' that threw me.   I was picturing a
Netscape-style cookie, a separate file, following a specified format.

Thanks for the info...

      reply	other threads:[~2012-12-08 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-08  0:43 TINYCHANGE cookie J. David Boyd
2012-12-08  0:50 ` [RESOLVED] " Ian Bryant
2012-12-08 11:56 ` Suvayu Ali
2012-12-08 14:45   ` J. David Boyd [this message]

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