Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Topics for the Maintainer's Summit

Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-11T11:03:29Z

On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 02:53:04AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Independent of the exact process, a git branch for every series would
> > be great. As a maintainer, I would love to be able to do 'git fetch
> > some-remote <message-id>'. I don't really care to write and maintain
> > code to apply series and figure out what branch they apply to. That
> > code already exists and I'm sure is more robust.
>
> +1. It would be huge if 'git am' could gain the ability to apply an mbox
> (which it can already do) and parse out the tags to add them to all the
> right patches. I have a script that mostly does this but it needs some
> more work because sometimes people reply to the cover letter and say
> their reviewed-by tag applies to patches 1-3, 5 and 6 and parsing that
> isn't necessarily easy.

Yes, that would help a lot. Any ignoring cover letters and allowing
for normal diff fuzz so that it doesn't completely fail with the
slightest movement in lines. And a vaguely git-rebase like way
to resolve conflicts instead of the current mess requring a manual
patch application.
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