radicle-heartwood-lfs/radicle-cli/examples/rad-patch.md

When contributing to another's project, it is common for the contribution to be of many commits and involve a discussion with the project's maintainer. This is supported via Radicle's patches.

Here we give a brief overview for using patches in our hypothetical car scenario. It turns out instructions containing the power requirements were missing from the project.

$ git checkout -b flux-capacitor-power
$ touch REQUIREMENTS

Here the instructions are added to the project's README for 1.21 gigawatts and commit the changes to git.

$ git add REQUIREMENTS
$ git commit -v -m "Define power requirements"
[flux-capacitor-power 3e674d1] Define power requirements
 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 REQUIREMENTS

Once the code is ready, we open (or create) a patch with our changes for the project.

$ rad patch open --message "Define power requirements" --message "See details."
master <- z6MknSL…StBU8Vi/flux-capacitor-power (3e674d1)
1 commit(s) ahead, 0 commit(s) behind

3e674d1 Define power requirements

✓ Patch 191a14e520f2eeff7c0e3ee0a5523c5217eecb89 created 🌱

To publish your patch to the network, run:
    git push rad

It will now be listed as one of the project's open patches.

$ rad patch
╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Define power requirements 191a14e R0 3e674d1 (flux-capacitor-power) ahead 1, behind 0   │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ ● opened by did:key:z6MknSLrJoTcukLrE435hVNQT4JUhbvWLX4kUzqkEStBU8Vi (you) [    ...    ]│
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

$ rad patch show 191a14e520f2eeff7c0e3ee0a5523c5217eecb89 -p
╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Title   Define power requirements                                                       │
│ Patch   191a14e520f2eeff7c0e3ee0a5523c5217eecb89                                        │
│ Author  did:key:z6MknSLrJoTcukLrE435hVNQT4JUhbvWLX4kUzqkEStBU8Vi                        │
│ Status  open                                                                            │
│                                                                                         │
│ See details.                                                                            │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ ● opened by did:key:z6MknSLrJoTcukLrE435hVNQT4JUhbvWLX4kUzqkEStBU8Vi (you) [    ...    ]│
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

commit 3e674d1a1df90807e934f9ae5da2591dd6848a33
Author: radicle <radicle@localhost>
Date:   Thu Dec 15 17:28:04 2022 +0000

    Define power requirements

diff --git a/REQUIREMENTS b/REQUIREMENTS
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29

We can also see that it set an upstream for our patch branch:

$ git branch -vv
* flux-capacitor-power 3e674d1 [rad/flux-capacitor-power] Define power requirements
  master               f2de534 [rad/master] Second commit

Wait, let's add a README too! Just for fun.

$ touch README.md
$ git add README.md
$ git commit --message "Add README, just for the fun"
[flux-capacitor-power 27857ec] Add README, just for the fun
 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 README.md
$ rad patch update --message "Add README, just for the fun" 191a14e520f2eeff7c0e3ee0a5523c5217eecb89
Updating 3e674d1 -> 27857ec
1 commit(s) ahead, 0 commit(s) behind
✓ Patch updated to revision b8f7bfbbb3c6a207b349e9f45bf535c706805871

And let's leave a quick comment for our team:

$ rad comment 191a14e520f2eeff7c0e3ee0a5523c5217eecb89 --message 'I cannot wait to get back to the 90s!'
16cb902f2657dc6ff9cf0f2c1a6ec4dc63340d23
$ rad comment 191a14e520f2eeff7c0e3ee0a5523c5217eecb89 --message 'I cannot wait to get back to the 90s!' --reply-to 16cb902f2657dc6ff9cf0f2c1a6ec4dc63340d23
16363eca043df797de835fca477848ee37513084

Now, let's checkout the patch that we just created:

$ rad patch checkout 191a14e52
✓ Switched to branch patch/191a14e

We can also add a review verdict as such:

$ rad review 191a14e520f2eeff7c0e3ee0a5523c5217eecb89 --accept --no-message --no-sync
✓ Patch 191a14e accepted

Showing the patch list now will reveal the favorable verdict:

$ rad patch
╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Define power requirements 191a14e R1 27857ec (flux-capacitor-power, patch/191a14e) ahead 2, behind 0 │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ ● opened by did:key:z6MknSLrJoTcukLrE435hVNQT4JUhbvWLX4kUzqkEStBU8Vi (you) [         ...            ]│
│ ↑ updated to b8f7bfbbb3c6a207b349e9f45bf535c706805871 (27857ec) [                    ...            ]│
│ ✓ accepted by z6MknSLrJoTcukLrE435hVNQT4JUhbvWLX4kUzqkEStBU8Vi (you) [               ...            ]│
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯