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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>
Cc: Jared Hance <jaredhance@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re-submitting patches
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 16:24:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100505212437.GA26487@progeny.tock> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19425.56411.745112.753594@winooski.ccs.neu.edu>

Hi Eli,

Eli Barzilay wrote:
> On May  5, Eli Barzilay wrote:

>> (*sigh*)  That's correct, I fixed this, but improperly remade the
>> patch.
>
> Is there some convention for sending a fixed patch?

With a small patch like this one, you can just send the fixed patch
as a reply to the thread.  Putting “[PATCH v2]” in the subject would
make it clear that this is the newer and better version.

With larger patches, doing that too often can overload people.
My preferred solution: describe the changes as soon as you want, but
then take some time to polish them before resubmitting.  This gives
people time to breathe. ;-)

The “ideal patch flow” section in Documentation/SubmittingPatches
says:

-------
 (3) Polish, refine, and re-send to the list and the people who
     spend their time to improve your patch.  Go back to step (2).
-------

Maybe this could be clearer.  In particular, sometimes it is not
obvious to people that even the patch submitter can pretend to be a
reviewer and discuss small incremental changes.

Thanks for bringing it up,
Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-05 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-05  0:25 [PATCH] Set GIT_PATHNAME_PREFIX with aliases Jared Hance
2010-05-05  0:51 ` Jeff King
2010-05-05  6:53   ` Johannes Sixt
2010-05-05  7:01     ` Jeff King
2010-05-05  7:52       ` Eli Barzilay
2010-05-05 16:07         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-05-05 20:28           ` [PATCH] An alias that starts with "!!" runs in the current directory Eli Barzilay
2010-05-05 20:52             ` [PATCH] An alias that starts with &quot;!!&quot; " Jared Hance
2010-05-05 20:58               ` Eli Barzilay
2010-05-05 21:00                 ` Eli Barzilay
2010-05-05 21:24                   ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-05-05 21:28                     ` Re-submitting patches Eli Barzilay
2010-05-05 21:31             ` [PATCH v2] An alias that starts with "!!" runs in the current directory Eli Barzilay
2010-05-05 22:22               ` Will Palmer
2010-05-05 22:33                 ` Eli Barzilay
2010-05-05 23:43                 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-05-06  0:05                   ` Adam Brewster
2010-05-06  6:21                     ` Will Palmer
2010-05-06  6:26                   ` Will Palmer
2010-05-06  6:36                   ` Johannes Sixt
2010-05-06  7:02                   ` Matthieu Moy
2010-05-05 22:02             ` [PATCH] " Junio C Hamano
2010-05-05 22:13               ` Eli Barzilay

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