Re: [PATCH] Documentation/00-INDEX notice ecryptfs.txt moved.

[Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>]

On Friday 31 August 2007 7:10:00 am Satyam Sharma wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Thursday 30 August 2007 2:04:37 pm Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > Please use the expected (canonical) patch format.
> > >
> > > See Documentation/SubmittingPatches:
> > >   14) The canonical patch format
> >
> > from Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
> >
> > ecryptfs.txt moved into filesystems, make 00-INDEX follow.
>
> That's still not quite right :-) What Randy meant is that the sign-off
> must come /after/ the patch description:

Randy emailed me about it offline and I updated my wrapper script.

I've always had a bit of a blind spot when it comes to filling out forms (I 
suck at bureaucracy), so I made a script to do it, currently:

#!/bin/bash

echo "From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>"
echo
echo "Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>"
echo "---"
echo
cat $1 | diffstat
echo
cat $1

I note that the example uses "From:" but the summary refers to it as 
the "from" line with no capital letter or colon, and unix being case 
sensitive I reproduced the quoted string verbatim.  (See "I suck at 
bureaucracy", above.)

> [ All this is not too important, admittedly, but causes least amount of
>   processing time to be wasted on the recipient's end, and also does not
>   confuse scripts that may be used to extract patches (and git commit
>   command-line arguments) from mails automatically. ]

If it's going to be parsed by a script, it might as well be generated by a 
script...

I've got another dozen of these patches to send, but I'm waiting to see which 
ones Jesper Juhl has queued up first. :)

(Between the two of us, we'll get this updated eventually...)

Rob
-- 
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
  - Ken Thompson.