Re: [Qemu-devel] Howto: instructing patchew about patch dependency

[Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 08/08 13:43, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 8 August 2017 at 03:02, Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Hi, QEMU patch submitters,
> >
> > I've patched patchew so that if you add a line:
> >
> > Based-on: $MESSAGE_ID
> >
> > in your cover letter body, or in a reply to it (or reply to reply), patchew will
> > try to apply your series on top of the one $MESSAGE_ID refers to, assuming the
> > base series _was_ successfully applied by patchew earlier.
> >
> > In the single patch case, you can put the line under the "---" mark in the
> > commit message (no need to let it enter git history).
> >
> > For human readability, around the "Based-on:" line it may be better if the
> > subject is noted. E.g.:
> >
> > Based-on: 20170804140942.19342-1-famz@redhat.com
> 
> Does the parser accept message-ids with their angle-brackets <>
> around them, or does it insist they be stripped out?

No. Good point, I've added angle-brackets handling just now.

Fam