From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:24:59 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] python-pyusb: new package In-Reply-To: <20131028081046.GA30640@sapphire.tkos.co.il> References: <1382742325-11435-1-git-send-email-wzab01@gmail.com> <1256826d-31b9-4b85-8834-35694e372fac@email.android.com> <1382742930-11510-1-git-send-email-wzab01@gmail.com> <526B018E.9080206@mind.be> <526E0E55.8060005@mind.be> <20131028081046.GA30640@sapphire.tkos.co.il> Message-ID: <526E1F5B.2020104@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 28/10/13 09:10, Baruch Siach wrote: > Hi Arnout, > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 08:12:21AM +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: >> On 26/10/13 09:33, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: >>> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 1:41 AM, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: >>>> Also, when sending an update, it is customary to add v2 to the subject >>>> so >>>> people can see which version is the latest one. You can do that by calling >>>> git send-email -v2 # Since git 1.8.x >>>> or >>>> git send-email --subject-prefix='PATCH v2' >>> >>> It seems, that the above should be applied to git format-patch, not >>> git send-email? >> >> You're right, but git send-email takes (almost) all of the options >> of git format-patch if you let it generate patches directly (e.g. >> with 'git send-email -1). Normally I don't bother with generating >> the patches separately and just mail them immediately - and I >> assumed that the rest of the world does the same :-). > > How do you add patch version changelog then? Manually with git commit --amend. There is no way AFAIK to ensure consistency between the patch changelog and the -v option you pass to send-email/format-patch. There are a few tools like topgit and guilt that are supposed to make it easier to manage a patch with changelog, but I found them difficult to use. Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F