From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: paulmck@linux.ibm.com (Paul E. McKenney) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:45:53 -0700 Subject: [Cocci] sending out trewide patches In-Reply-To: References: <20181027171438.GD4170@linux.ibm.com> Message-ID: <20181030194553.GR4170@linux.ibm.com> To: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr List-Id: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 08:08:33PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > On Sat, 27 Oct 2018, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > 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. Does the following error message mean that I need a more up-to-date version of ocaml or some such? Thanx, Paul File "globals/config.ml", line 1: Error: The implementation globals/config.ml does not match the interface globals/config.cmi: The field `python_interpreter' is required but not provided The field `ocaml_version' is required but not provided The field `configure_flags' is required but not provided The field `get_temp_dir_name' is required but not provided make: *** [globals/config.cmo] Error 2