Re: [Qemu-devel] Posting a patch?

[Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>]

Am 14.05.2012 22:58, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> On 05/14/2012 03:53 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 14 May 2012 21:30, Stefan Weil<sw@weilnetz.de>  wrote:
>>> if you use git for sending, you don't risk that your mailer destroys 
>>> the
>>> format of your patch.
>>> I usually use these commands to send a single patch from the QEMU 
>>> source
>>> directory:
>>>
>>>     # Create the patch file (name depends on the subject line of 
>>> your patch).
>>>     git format-patch HEAD^
>>>     # Check the patch (fix any issues which were found).
>>>     scripts/checkpatch.pl 0001-*
>>>     # Get the maintainer who is responsible (there is not always one).
>>>     scripts/get_maintainer.pl 0001-*
>>>     # Send the patch.
>>>     git send-email --to qemu-devel@nongnu.org --to 
>>> "n.n<address@domain>"
>>> 0001-*
>>
>> If you do this more than once in the same git tree you'll regret it :-)
>> ("git send-email 0001-*" will happily retransmit all the old 0001-foo
>> patches along with the new one...) I use git-format-patch's -o option to
>> put my sent patches in a separate directory so they don't clutter up the
>> working tree.
>
> You can also do:
>
> git send-email --to=qemu-devel@nongnu.org HEAD~1
>
> Which avoids any clutter.

... and also avoids nasty messages from checkpatch.pl :-)

But as this method tends to add clutter to the qemu code
or to the mailing list, it should be avoided.

>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori

Cheers,

Stefan W.