<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">On Sep 29, 2024, at 15:44, Gagan Sidhu wrote:</div><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>“how do i do that?” (submit a pull request) lol i remember our beloved ppc crank barracuda told me to do the same thing for folly and i didn’t know how.</span><br><span></span><br><span>i’m just kidding on expecting you to answer that here though, as i know/hope/suspect bing will tell me how to do it.</span><br><span> - and i’m pretty sure you guys will have some documentation, probably from like 20 years ago (and is still probably current haha) that explains how to do it.</span></div></blockquote><div><br></div>The MacPorts source code was moved to git and GitHub and the pull request workflow in 2016. I was one of the few who didn't know how to use git at the time and relied on the expertise of other contributors to get up to speed. The documentation that was created at that time is here:<div><br></div><div><div style="display: block;" class=""><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://trac.macports.org/wiki/WorkingWithGit"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://trac.macports.org/wiki/WorkingWithGit" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#E9E9EB;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#E9E9EB" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;table-layout:fixed;background-color:rgba(233, 233, 235, 1);" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://trac.macports.org/wiki/WorkingWithGit" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#000000" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);">WorkingWithGit</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://trac.macports.org/wiki/WorkingWithGit" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#A2A2A9" style="color: rgba(60, 60, 67, 0.6);">trac.macports.org</font></a></div></div></td><td style="padding:6px 12px 6px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-rightIconItem" width="36"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://trac.macports.org/wiki/WorkingWithGit" draggable="false"><img style="pointer-events:none !important;display:inline-block;width:36px;height:36px;border-radius:3px;" width="36" height="36" draggable="false" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-rightIcon" alt="macports.ico" src="cid:EE2DBC5C-B853-4F39-A3E3-511D36B4501C"></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div><br></div><div><br></div><div>It is aimed at those familiar with Subversion, which is how we stored our source code previously, but may help even if you're unfamiliar with that. </div><div><br></div><div>If not, git and GitHub are very popular and there must be a billion tutorials you can find on how to use it. </div></body></html>