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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.
$ git push rad -o patch.message="Define power requirements" -o patch.message="See details." HEAD:refs/patches
✓ Patch 6ff4f09c1b5a81347981f59b02ef43a31a07cdae opened
To rad://z42hL2jL4XNk6K8oHQaSWfMgCL7ji/z6MknSLrJoTcukLrE435hVNQT4JUhbvWLX4kUzqkEStBU8Vi
* [new reference] HEAD -> refs/patches
It will now be listed as one of the project's open patches.
$ rad patch
╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ ● ID Title Author Head + - Updated │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ ● 6ff4f09 Define power requirements z6MknSL…StBU8Vi (you) 3e674d1 +0 -0 now │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
$ rad patch show 6ff4f09c1b5a81347981f59b02ef43a31a07cdae -p
╭────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Title Define power requirements │
│ Patch 6ff4f09c1b5a81347981f59b02ef43a31a07cdae │
│ Author z6MknSL…StBU8Vi (you) │
│ Head 3e674d1a1df90807e934f9ae5da2591dd6848a33 │
│ Branches flux-capacitor-power │
│ Commits ahead 1, behind 0 │
│ Status open │
│ │
│ See details. │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 3e674d1 Define power requirements │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ ● opened by z6MknSL…StBU8Vi (you) now │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
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/patches/6ff4f09c1b5a81347981f59b02ef43a31a07cdae] 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
$ git push rad -o patch.message="Add README, just for the fun"
✓ Patch 6ff4f09 updated to 0c0942e2ff2488617d950ede15567ca39a29972e
To rad://z42hL2jL4XNk6K8oHQaSWfMgCL7ji/z6MknSLrJoTcukLrE435hVNQT4JUhbvWLX4kUzqkEStBU8Vi
3e674d1..27857ec flux-capacitor-power -> patches/6ff4f09c1b5a81347981f59b02ef43a31a07cdae
And let's leave a quick comment for our team:
$ rad patch comment 6ff4f09c1b5a81347981f59b02ef43a31a07cdae --message 'I cannot wait to get back to the 90s!'
╭───────────────────────────────────────╮
│ z6MknSL…StBU8Vi (you) now cd811db │
│ I cannot wait to get back to the 90s! │
╰───────────────────────────────────────╯
$ rad patch comment 6ff4f09c1b5a81347981f59b02ef43a31a07cdae --message 'My favorite decade!' --reply-to cd811db -q
b6a76fe394de87eb34cbc3823a0edc80ff98cb97
Now, let's checkout the patch that we just created:
$ rad patch checkout 6ff4f09
✓ Switched to branch patch/6ff4f09
✓ Branch patch/6ff4f09 setup to track rad/patches/6ff4f09c1b5a81347981f59b02ef43a31a07cdae
We can also add a review verdict as such:
$ rad review 6ff4f09c1b5a81347981f59b02ef43a31a07cdae --accept --no-message --no-sync
✓ Patch 6ff4f09 accepted
Showing the patch list now will reveal the favorable verdict:
$ rad patch show 6ff4f09
╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Title Define power requirements │
│ Patch 6ff4f09c1b5a81347981f59b02ef43a31a07cdae │
│ Author z6MknSL…StBU8Vi (you) │
│ Head 27857ec9eb04c69cacab516e8bf4b5fd36090f66 │
│ Branches flux-capacitor-power, patch/6ff4f09 │
│ Commits ahead 2, behind 0 │
│ Status open │
│ │
│ See details. │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 27857ec Add README, just for the fun │
│ 3e674d1 Define power requirements │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ ● opened by z6MknSL…StBU8Vi (you) now │
│ ↑ updated to 0c0942e2ff2488617d950ede15567ca39a29972e (27857ec) now │
│ ✓ accepted by z6MknSL…StBU8Vi (you) now │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
If you make a mistake on the patch description, you can always change it!
$ rad patch edit 6ff4f09 --message "Define power requirements" --message "Add requirements file"
$ rad patch show 6ff4f09
╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Title Define power requirements │
│ Patch 6ff4f09c1b5a81347981f59b02ef43a31a07cdae │
│ Author z6MknSL…StBU8Vi (you) │
│ Head 27857ec9eb04c69cacab516e8bf4b5fd36090f66 │
│ Branches flux-capacitor-power, patch/6ff4f09 │
│ Commits ahead 2, behind 0 │
│ Status open │
│ │
│ Add requirements file │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 27857ec Add README, just for the fun │
│ 3e674d1 Define power requirements │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ ● opened by z6MknSL…StBU8Vi (you) now │
│ ↑ updated to 0c0942e2ff2488617d950ede15567ca39a29972e (27857ec) now │
│ ✓ accepted by z6MknSL…StBU8Vi (you) now │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯