[U-Boot] IXP42x patch series version 3

[Michael Schwingen <rincewind@discworld.dascon.de>]

Am 02/07/2011 09:54 PM, schrieb Graeme Russ:
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Michael Schwingen
> <rincewind@discworld.dascon.de> wrote:
>> Am 02/05/2011 12:52 AM, schrieb Wolfgang Denk:
>>> Dear Michael Schwingen,
>>>
>>> In message <1296860763-16149-1-git-send-email-michael@schwingen.org> you wrote:
>>>> here is the third incarnation of the IXP patch series. I hope I addressed
>>>> all the comments from version 2:
>>>>  - timer system now uses no BSS-based variables
>>>>  - use I/O accessors
>>>>  - remove config.mk from board directories
>>>>  - set -ffunction-sections/--gc-sections globally (for IXP architecture)
>>> Sorry, but please consider it all NAKed.
>>>
>>> See the note at bullet 2 at
>>> http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/U-Boot/Patches#Sending_updated_patch_versions
>>> for the rationale.
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just tried, but I can't find a way to insert the changelog so that
>> git-send-email places it at the required point (ie. after the s.o.b. and
>> inside the same comment block as the diffstat) - all I could get was the
>> changelog inside the comment block, with a line with "---" above, like this:
>>
>> From: Michael Schwingen <michael@schwingen.org>
>> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 21:34:59 +0100
>> Subject: [PATCH 01/17] add XScale sub architecture (IXP/PXA) to
>> maintainer list
>>
>> ---
>> Changes for V2:
>> Changes for V3:
>>  - change patch description
>>  - drop wepep250 (should already be deleted)
>> Changes for V4:
>>  - add changelog
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michael Schwingen <michael@schwingen.org>
>> ---
>>  MAINTAINERS |   44 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>>  1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> index b37ed0c..709c5d9 100644
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -559,8 +559,8 @@ Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de>
>>
>> which looks quite different from what the wiki suggests.
>>
>> Do you have a short pointer how to get the right result using git? Or is
>> this format actually acceptable?
>>
> I use git-format-patch to dump the patches into a directory and then tweak
> the comment section manually before using git-send-email. I can also run
> diff against any two versions of the series, checkpatch etc
>
> Maybe there is a more integrated way, but I'm a creature of habit - once I
> find something that works for me, I tend to stick to it :)
manually editing the changelog in 17 files for every patch version does
not sound very manageable. Is there really no way to generate/maintain
the changelogs using git?

cu
Michael