[fpc-pascal] Multi helpers

[Ryan Joseph]

posts getting blocked again, just sending this to see if it gets through.

> On Feb 26, 2019, at 9:10 AM, Ryan Joseph <ryan at thealchemistguild.com> wrote:
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>> On Feb 26, 2019, at 7:05 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys <mailinglists at geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote:
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>> Rather do as always recommended... develop in a "feature" branch.
>> Branches are brilliant in Git and most Git commands work better when
>> branches are used. Also split your changes into multiple smaller
>> commits. ie: your tests into one commit and your other changes into
>> another commit. Use commits - they don't cost anything, so no need to go
>> sparingly on them. ;-)
> 
> I was actually in a feature branch already. I don’t know how it works but only changes made in the active branch (my feature branch) were added to the patch.
> 
> What do you mean split changes into smaller commits? I’ve been working on this over months so there were dozens of commits. The final patch that was made had a history of all the commits but they were just packed into one file (which I thought was easier to distribute than a directory full of them).
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> Still not sure how to keep the tests separate though. I added them in over time in a number of commits so it seems not possible to extract them now.
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>> Lastly, use the format-patch command but with branches instead.
>> 
>> git format-patch -o output_directory --cover-letter
>> <feature_branch>...<master_branch>
>> 
>> In will generate sequentially numbered set of .patch files in the
>> <output_directory> and a 0000-cover-letter.patch file. ie: a summary of
>> what you changed, which is useful for pasting into an email or mantis
>> report.
> 
> Does this mean a .patch for each commit? Why is that better than merging into one patch?
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>> 
>> NOTE:
>> 1. Note the 3 dots between branch names
>> 2. <feature_branch> is the branch in which you did your work.
>> 3. <master_branch> is the branch you create your feature branch from.
>> 
>> 
>> Hope this helps.

Regards,
	Ryan Joseph