Re: [aur-general] PKGBUILD that helps with VCS upstream contribution?

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 18:01, Philipp <hollunder@lavabit.com> wrote:

Now if I wanted to contribute code back to a project that uses git, how would I do that without losing the comfort and safety of makepkg? I figured it should be possible to write a PKGBUILD that gets the latest upstream changes but also integrates local changes.

Fork their git repo (github makes this easy), add and commit your changes, and set your PKGBUILD to use your forked version. You can use git format-patch to send things back to them, or send a pull request through github or some other medium. The individual project will determine what's the best method.