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It's so hard to find a proper category on this forum...

Anyway, I've gone through a wiki page about GIT and still have some questions. I'm very familiar with SVN but have no experience with GIT. Time to fix that.

I've installed GIT, some GUI (SmartGit) and cloned "https://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega".

I did some changes to APM Planner and wanted to commit it.

I understand this is open source but I also understand that only trusted devs have a write permission to original repository. I've read so much on "forking" the project but I can't find it (using that SmartGit). Also, I don't see the point on forking the whole repo just to make small changes that could eventually go to main repo.

So maybe instead I should create a patch and present it to Michael Oborne? But I can read here that in that tool there is no way of creating patch. Well, looks like it's a lousy tool and I should switch to Tortoise, like for SVN.

Anyway.. what is the preferred way of making changes to the code and presenting it to the community/dev team?
The question is valid either for Arduino part and for Planner part.