Re: [Qemu-devel] Posting a patch?

[Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>]

Am 14.05.2012 22:53, schrieb Peter Maydell:
> 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.
>    

That's why git send-email asks before sending an email. :-)

If there are several files which match 0001-*, it will ask for
each of them.

>> Please read also http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch.
>>      
> I've updated the wiki page to mention git format-patch and git send-email.
> Does anybody have a link to a decent short tutorial on how to use them?
> If so, I think it would probably be helpful for us to put a link on the
> SubmitAPatch page.
>
> -- PMM
>    

I just added links to the man pages.
Of course a tutorial would be even better.

Regards,
Stefan W.