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[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

explain how you contribute with out an account? is there a hosting service that lets you do that?

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In case, you're not aware, you can also email the dev. You can code up your commits as normal and then use e.g. git format-patch -3 to put the last 3 commits patch files. You can then attach those files to an e-mail and the dev can apply those patches with git am.

It takes a bit of playing around, but it's actually really easy.
The Linux kernel, one of the most complex projects on the planet, develops like this.

[–] Flipper@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

They also created very good documentation: https://git-send-email.io/

[–] Breezy@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

I currently have a GitHub account in order to contribute to projects hosted on GitHub, because I don't think there is currently a way possible to do thinks like open up an issue without an account.