## Prepare patches
-If you (as a non-developer) made some changes to the DragonFly source and want to get them included in the main repository, send your patches to `submit@lists.dragonflybsd.org`. git assists you in creating patches which are easy to handle for the developers.
+If you (as a non-developer) made some changes to the DragonFly source and want to get them included in the main repository, send your patches to `submit@lists.dragonflybsd.org`.
+In order to be able to do that, you need to have yourself and the email address you are using registered with the <http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/> bug/issue tracker; otherwise, your contribution will get silently dropped.
+Git assists you in creating patches which are easy to handle for the developers.
### Example
**Note:** The change in this example is completely useless, it only serves demonstration purposes!
- > git format-patch origin
+ > git format-patch origin/master
0001-Change-parentheses.patch
> cat 0001-Change-parentheses.patch
From cbb871b4588c695f000bc701b4f3c16a0a518991 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001