From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lwgx6-0000gl-NW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:13:44 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lwgx1-0000eI-JP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:13:43 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39674 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lwgx1-0000e1-5d for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:13:39 -0400 Received: from e39.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.160]:51556) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lwgx0-0003M4-Q0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:13:39 -0400 Received: from d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.227]) by e39.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n3MIAFUQ010063 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:10:15 -0600 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.2) with ESMTP id n3MIDZt7096808 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:13:35 -0600 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n3MIDYdC012258 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:13:34 -0600 Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:13:28 -0500 From: Ryan Harper Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Switching to git Message-ID: <20090422181328.GF25977@us.ibm.com> References: <49EF1A26.70007@us.ibm.com> <761ea48b0904220720h48a3c53cv9f90a3c94a31f5d5@mail.gmail.com> <49EF282C.8010602@us.ibm.com> <0240830B-5527-4567-B605-51C173C39239@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0240830B-5527-4567-B605-51C173C39239@web.de> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=E4rber?= Cc: qemu-devel * Andreas F?rber [2009-04-22 13:03]: > > Am 22.04.2009 um 16:22 schrieb Anthony Liguori: > > >Laurent Desnogues wrote: > >>On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Anthony Liguori > >> wrote: > >>[...] > >> > >>>For users, to get the latest QEMU bits, you would do: > >>> > >>>$ git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu.git > >>> > >>> > >>>For maintainers, Savannah has a getting started page that > >>>describes how to > >>>push commits at http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/UsingGit > >>> > >> > >>And what for people between users and maintainers, for instance those > >>who propose patches? Will there be some recommendations on how > >>to post patches so that it works well? And don't forget that for > >>some > >>people just telling "a set of patches is good as long as it can be > >>bisected" is too short :-) > >> > > > >Yup, we'll have a SubmittingPatches that provides the recommended > >work flow. A really nice property of git is that if you use the > >various git tools to send patches (git-format-patch/git-send-email) > >then a maintainer can grab those automatically via git-am. It > >significantly reduces the likelihood of loosing information in the > >process. > > Unfortunately tools like git-send-email make me loose information > instead, by not saving the sent patches in my mail client's or IMAP > server's Sent Mail folder... git-send-email sends you a copy of the patches sent. -- Ryan Harper Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center IBM Corp., Austin, Tx ryanh@us.ibm.com