Hello Ali-G.
Nice to read that you want to be more closely involved in content development. To create git patches you need to:
1. install git
2. clone the tmw client data git repository using
git clone
3. configure your mana client to use the cloned data instead of the updates so that you can test your changes properly (see
http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopi ... =13&t=2617)
4. update the files regularily using
git pull
5. make your changes at the cloned files
6.
git add and
git commit your changes
7. use
git format-patch HEAD^ to create a patch file with your commit
8. append the patch file to the corresponding mantis task on
http://mantis.themanaworld.org (or create one when there isn't and the problem is serious enough to warrant one).
9. notify the tmw developers about the patch. The best way to do this is the IRC channel.
Git is not very intuitive to use, especially for people not used to command line based tools. But it is very well documented. you can use
git help command to view the documentation.
Our git guide on the wiki is also a great source of information:
http://wiki.themanaworld.org/index.php/Git
When you have any problems with any of these steps, feel free to ask. But the quickest way to get helped are the irc.themanaworld.org irc channels. for git-specific questions you can also ask in the #manasource channel on irc.freenode.net.
When you've shown that you understand git and how the development processes work, the tmw content devs will surely allow you to push your commits yourself. On manasource this would not even make your life easier because we have a rule that every non-trivial commit must be reviewed by at least one other developer before pushing, so you have to create a patch anyway. I don't know if there is a similar policy for tmw content developers because I am not involved with it anymore.
