Dear All:
I am very very sorry for the spam I have created via my testbot failures. I have struggled quite a bit merging my git repository with upstream Wine today.
In fact, when I generated individual patches using git-format-patch from my GitHub repository and then used git-am on the corresponding single files, the patches applied successfully. In fact, I just tried this and they still do.
However, for some reason, when I generate a patchset to stdout with git-format-patch rather than individual patches, and then use git-am to apply the resulting file to wine-git, the patches no longer apply.
I will investigate this further. Additionally, as I seem to find proper patch difficult at the moment, and have now acquired a winetestbot account, I will, in the future, run my patches through testbot first until I am able to work out the process.
Further, I have made some edits regarding merging with GitHub at: wiki.winehq.org/WineGit
I will update these comments as I figure out why I was not able to rebase/merge successfully.
In any case, I appreciate very much your patience with me as I work these git issues out, and hope that my documentation of my experiences on the Wiki will, in the future, help others who may want to contribute to Wine during a code freeze and do so through the GitHub system.
Thank you and my sincerest apologies.
Yours Misha
P.s. I am looking very much forward to finally meeting some of you at WineConf.