Re: [Qemu-devel] posting patches in pull requests (was Re: [PATCH 08/29] cpu: Add qemu_for_each_cpu())

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:

> Il 02/05/2013 18:06, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
>> On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 10:52:47AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> On 2 May 2013 16:30, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>> /me changes his scripts...
>>>>>
>>>>> -s/PATCH/PULL/ if (/PATCH 0+\\//);
>>>>> +s/PATCH/PULL/ if (/^Subject:/);
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, Perl...
>>>>
>>>> Heh, I use sed for this bit:
>>>> sed -i -e 's/^Subject: \[PULL\(.*\)].*/Subject: [PULL\1]
>>>> '"$BRANCHPFX"' queue/;/^$/q' "$COVERLETTER"
>>>
>>> You can also just do git format-patch --subject-prefix=PULL and avoid
>>> any fixups...
>
> I still want to avoid any mistakes in case I override the subject prefix
> (e.g. to include 1.5)... Keeping the substitution is cheap and a nice
> safety net.
>
>> Don't forget -M please, especially if you are Paolo :)
>
> Or
>
> [diff]
>         renames = true
>         renamelimit = 2000

BTW, this is all great stuff to put in a SubmitAPullRequest page on the
wiki.  I don't send pull requests so I don't have a script to do this,
but I'd encourage those that do to share their scripts on the wiki.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Paolo