Integrating changes

The exact details on how to submit changes for merging depends, of course, on the development workflow that the project is using. Various classes of possible workflows are described in Chapter 6, Collaborative Development with Git.

Submitting and describing changes

If the project has a dedicated maintainer or, at least someone responsible for merging the proposed changes into the official version, you also need to describe the submitted changes as a whole (in addition to describing each commit in the series). This can be done in the form of a cover letter for the patch series while sending changes as patches via email. It can also be done with comments in the pull request while using the collocated contributor repositories model, or it can be the description in an email with a pull request, which already includes the URL and the branch in your public repository with changes (generated with git request-pull).

This cover letter or pull request should include...