Howto send many commits as mail-patches?

Howto send many commits as mail-patches?

[Sam Ravnborg]

Hi all.

I have a collection of commits in my GIT repository that I like to send
out to linux-kernel.
But my initial experiments with git-send-emails.perl fall out bad.

I did the following:

1) First I created a mbox with the patches:
git format-patch -n --mbox --stdout -M -B b286e39207237e2f6929959372bf66d9a8d05a82 > mbox

The mbox looked OK. -M -B were from the man page and since the patchset
includes a number of renames it made the mbox considerably smaller.

So I went on an tried to send the mails:
git-send-email.perl --from "Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>" --to "sam@ravnborg.org" --chain-reply-to "" mbox

It just send out two huge mails containing all of the mbox.
Also it cc:ed all people included in "Signed-off-by". That is sometimes
a nice feature but for testing I like it to be optional.

Can someone give me a nice howto so I can see how to send out the mails.

TIA,
	Sam

Re: Howto send many commits as mail-patches?

[Ryan Anderson]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 12:38:59PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I have a collection of commits in my GIT repository that I like to send
> out to linux-kernel.
> But my initial experiments with git-send-emails.perl fall out bad.
> 
> I did the following:
> 
> 1) First I created a mbox with the patches:
> git format-patch -n --mbox --stdout -M -B b286e39207237e2f6929959372bf66d9a8d05a82 > mbox


> The mbox looked OK. -M -B were from the man page and since the patchset
> includes a number of renames it made the mbox considerably smaller.
> 
> So I went on an tried to send the mails:
> 
> It just send out two huge mails containing all of the mbox.
> Also it cc:ed all people included in "Signed-off-by". That is sometimes
> a nice feature but for testing I like it to be optional.
> 
> Can someone give me a nice howto so I can see how to send out the mails.

Try:
	mkdir ../pending/
	git format-patch -n --mbox -o ../pending/ -M -B b286e39207237e2f6929959372bf66d9a8d05a82
	git-send-email.perl --from "Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>" --to "sam@ravnborg.org" --chain-reply-to "" ../pending/

With this method, you can examine the files in ../pending/, edit patch
comments if you want, add an "introductory" mail, etc.

The Signed-off-by: cc:ing is currently not something that can be
disabled, but you can do something like this to stop it temporarily:

(cut and pasted, so it probably won't directly apply)
diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index ec1428d..9c7d0b8 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ foreach my $t (@files) {
                        }
                } else {
                        $message .=  $_;
-                       if (/^Signed-off-by: (.*)$/i) {
+                       if (/^XSigned-off-by: (.*)$/i) {
                                my $c = $1;
                                chomp $c;
                                push @cc, $c;

Hope that helped,

-- 

Ryan Anderson
  sometimes Pug Majere