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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: tools@linux.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Feature requests
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 12:22:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y5cdEWH8+BzYHaxU@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221209210932.rabvalmiry2a3zge@meerkat.local>

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On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 04:09:32PM -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 11:52:25PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > I've had another look at potentially adopting b4 prep/send as a
> > replacement for the bits of my scripting that it covers.  I did
> > find a couple of gaps that are causing friction though:
> > 
> >  - Some command line options for extracting the metadata for the

...

> >    comparing the current version with the last sent version.  An
> >    equivalent of git config get/set for the series metadata would
> >    cover all this and more.

> I believe the latest master should have what you need:

>     $ b4 prep --show-info
>     branch: b4/bupkes-bogus
>     cover-subject: [RFC] Another completely bogus series, ignore
>     prefixes: RFC
>     change-id: 20221205-bupkes-bogus-8f0db5172091
>     revision: 6
>     cover-strategy: commit
>     base-branch: master
>     base-commit: bce9332220bd677d83b19d21502776ad555a0e73
>     start-commit: 8398c66ced5379a8b84d59ec7f703e9809b17c12
>     end-commit: ae4436d441721dd884355b637f02dbc620ad422d
>     commit-ae4436d44172: Rename linux into pengux
>     commit-c0075ed67f3f: Makefile: Make it a ninja penguin

That does the read side great, thanks - the write side would still be
useful, mainly for the base-branch which can change during the lifetime
of a series (it's common to move between mainline and topic branches in
the upstream repo in both directions).

> >  - It would be nice if there was an option to sign the tags used
> >    when tagging sent branches, especially when signing the actual
> >    sent patches.

> Theoretically, this is already possible via tag.gpgSign = yes. Would that be a
> suitable approach?

Yes, that should work for me for now - I guess there will be some people
who do use unsigned tags who'd want to sign these particular tags.

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      reply	other threads:[~2022-12-12 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-06 22:07 b4 prep HEAD fails when specifying branch point Mark Brown
2022-12-06 22:15 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2022-12-06 22:58   ` Mark Brown
2022-12-07  1:11     ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2022-12-07 12:42       ` Mark Brown
2022-12-07 22:55         ` Mark Brown
2022-12-06 23:52   ` Feature requests Mark Brown
2022-12-09 21:09     ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2022-12-12 12:22       ` Mark Brown [this message]

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