Since its move to git, contributing to the Eclipse foundation projects is a bit different.
Nothing terrible actually, let’s take the example of a contribution to the p2 project (part of the equinox umbrella at the Eclipse foundation)
- Checkout the project
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git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/equinox/rt.equinox.p2.git |
- do the changes and then commit them to your local repo (you can perform this step several times)
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git commit |
- create the patch against the master branch
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git format-patch origin |
You will get a file for each commit you submitted, so one commit = one patch file.
You can attach your patch(es) to a bugzilla entry, for example , make p2 buildable with tycho (click on one of the patches)
- what an eclipse committer will do then , is apply your patch to its local repo to test everything is ok
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git apply 0001-my-patch.patch |
That’s pretty much it ! A bit more tedious than a Github pull request, but it does the job !