Re: Fetching or installing package dev source from VCS: manual style

[Richard Stallman]

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  >   If you have made a change you wish to share
  > with the maintainers, first commit your changes then use the command
  > @code{package-vc-prepare-patch} to share it.  @xref{Preparing Patches}.

This presumes that a user who suggests a patch to a program will or
should commit that change to some repo in order to email the a patch.
This is an extra step and seems like a gratuitous requirement.

When I write and suggest a patch in a program that I don't intend to
maintain a version of, I don't even think of doing that.  I use M-x
diff to make the patch to email, because that is the natural Emacs
way.

I think the command should be named `package-prepare-patch', and it
should be able to handle either way of working, with version control
or without.

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