[Cocci] sending out trewide patches

[paulmck@linux.ibm.com (Paul E. McKenney)]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 08:38:02AM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> At OSS Europe, I got some questions about how to send out large
> Coccinelle-generated patches.  Coccinelle provides a tool tools/splitpatch
> (go to the tools subdirectory of the Coccinelle distribution and run make)
> that splits patches by set of maintainers (the default), by directory
> (--dirmerge option), or by file (--nomerge option).  There is a file
> tools/splitpatch.README that explains the various ways that it can be
> used, but the simplest is to create a patch normally using
> git format-patch -s, obtaining eg 0001-changes.patch, and then run
> 
> splitpatch 0001-changes.patch
> 
> The output will include a 0001-changes.cover file, a set of
> 0001-changesN.patch files with the various split patches, and a
> 0001-changes.cmd file for sending it off with git send-email.
> 
> This is available in the latest github version of Coccinelle.  Comments
> are welcome.

Thank you, Julia!  I will give it a try.

							Thanx, Paul

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