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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 11:53:21 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for April 05
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To: Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 06:29:48 pm Alexander Graf wrote:
>> What exactly do you mean by better-practice git setups?
> Some projects try to use special features in git. For example, KDE makes use
> of insteadOf and pushInsteadOf to allow checking out from anongit, and
> committing to the main server using a pseudo-URL.
>
> Should I have some magic git hooks enabled? Automatic use of checker scripts
> or sign-off?

scripts/checkpatch.pl is mentioned in CODING_STYLE.  I have a git-hook
to automatically run it:
http://blog.vmsplice.net/2011/03/how-to-automatically-run-checkpatchpl.html

That hook is just a personal tool I use.  It is not required but we
could document it more prominently for people getting set up with QEMU
development.

Stefan