Re: [PATCH 08/27] asm-generic: add generic versions of common headers

Sam Ravnborg
2009-04-30T17:59:59Z

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 06:49:44PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 30 April 2009, David Miller wrote:
> > Many sites are bouncing because the date on your emails is
> > as much as two days in the past.
>
> Any suggestions on which tool I should use? I've been burned by
> both 'quilt mail' and 'git-format-patch' this week and don't want
> to make any more experiments. I looked at git-send-email, but
> I'm sure I'd screw up even more with that because it directly
> sends out the patches rather than giving me an mbox file to look
> at.

I have been very pleased with git send-email.

I always send out the initial mail by hand "[PATCH 0/nn] xxx".
When it has arrived I create a small shell script
so I can handcraft the options.
Typical shell script looks like this:

git send-email --quiet --no-chain-reply-to \
--in-reply-to "<20090429073510.GA26386@uranus.ravnborg.org>" \
--to "Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>" \
--to "LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>" \
00*

This works well when I have longer series of mail.
And you can split it up so you do it in smaller
groups of say 10 mails.

For a single patch or two I always do it manually.

Sam