Re: [RFC PATCH] .gitpublish: use origin/master as default base

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> writes:

> On 29/9/25 15:43, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> This is very much the result of my recent fat finger but I think it's
>> safer to assume that origin/master points to a recent commit (or at
>> least a commit a given branch is based on) than master.
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>> ---
>>   .gitpublish | 16 ++++++++--------
>>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>> diff --git a/.gitpublish b/.gitpublish
>> index a13f8c7c0ec..a3adb21ffa1 100644
>> --- a/.gitpublish
>> +++ b/.gitpublish
>> @@ -4,48 +4,48 @@
>>   # See https://github.com/stefanha/git-publish for more information
>>   #
>>   [gitpublishprofile "default"]
>> -base = master
>> +base = origin/master
>
> Any key to specify the remote? (not everybody have mainstream tracked
> as origin).

I would suspect most do if they clone from the project repo - but yes if
they clone from their repo first this will be just as wrong as using
master ;-)

>
>>   to = qemu-devel@nongnu.org
>>   cccmd = scripts/get_maintainer.pl --noroles --norolestats --nogit --nogit-fallback 2>/dev/null
>>     [gitpublishprofile "rfc"]
>> -base = master
>> +base = origin/master
>>   prefix = RFC PATCH
>>   to = qemu-devel@nongnu.org
>>   cccmd = scripts/get_maintainer.pl --noroles --norolestats --nogit --nogit-fallback 2>/dev/null
>>     [gitpublishprofile "stable"]
>> -base = master
>> +base = origin/master
>>   to = qemu-devel@nongnu.org
>>   cc = qemu-stable@nongnu.org
>>   cccmd = scripts/get_maintainer.pl --noroles --norolestats --nogit --nogit-fallback 2>/dev/null
>>     [gitpublishprofile "trivial"]
>> -base = master
>> +base = origin/master
>>   to = qemu-devel@nongnu.org
>>   cc = qemu-trivial@nongnu.org
>>   cccmd = scripts/get_maintainer.pl --noroles --norolestats --nogit --nogit-fallback 2>/dev/null
>>     [gitpublishprofile "block"]
>> -base = master
>> +base = origin/master
>>   to = qemu-devel@nongnu.org
>>   cc = qemu-block@nongnu.org
>>   cccmd = scripts/get_maintainer.pl --noroles --norolestats --nogit --nogit-fallback 2>/dev/null
>>     [gitpublishprofile "arm"]
>> -base = master
>> +base = origin/master
>>   to = qemu-devel@nongnu.org
>>   cc = qemu-arm@nongnu.org
>>   cccmd = scripts/get_maintainer.pl --noroles --norolestats --nogit --nogit-fallback 2>/dev/null
>>     [gitpublishprofile "s390"]
>> -base = master
>> +base = origin/master
>>   to = qemu-devel@nongnu.org
>>   cc = qemu-s390@nongnu.org
>>   cccmd = scripts/get_maintainer.pl --noroles --norolestats --nogit --nogit-fallback 2>/dev/null
>>     [gitpublishprofile "ppc"]
>> -base = master
>> +base = origin/master
>>   to = qemu-devel@nongnu.org
>>   cc = qemu-ppc@nongnu.org
>>   cccmd = scripts/get_maintainer.pl --noroles --norolestats --nogit --nogit-fallback 2>/dev/null

-- 
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro