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From: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-img rebase: allow empty file name as new backing file to mean rebase with no backing file [attempt 2]
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:51:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9A90128248489D80FF1CEA68@nimrod.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <507C75CB.2090006@redhat.com>



--On 15 October 2012 14:44:59 -0600 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:

> Rather long on the subject line; 'git shortlog -30' will give you a
> taste for typical commit summary length.  Also, you will usually see
> [PATCHv2] as the prefix, rather than [PATCH]...[attempt 2] as a suffix,
> since 'git am' only strips a [] prefix.  It might be better as:
>
> qemu-img rebase: use empty string to rebase without backing file

Resent under separate cover with this fixed

>> This patch allows an empty filename to be passed as the new base image name
>> for qemu-img rebase to mean base the image on no backing file (i.e.
>> independent of any backing file). According to Eric Blake, qemu-imag rebase
>
> s/qemu-imag/qemu-img/

and that fixed

-- 
Alex Bligh

      reply	other threads:[~2012-10-15 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-15 20:23 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-img rebase: allow empty file name as new backing file to mean rebase with no backing file [attempt 2] Alex Bligh
2012-10-15 20:44 ` Eric Blake
2012-10-15 20:51   ` Alex Bligh [this message]

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