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Hi.
I would like to have advices about some possible workflows to use when
maintaining a patch, that can evolve over the time (fixing bugs, and
applying advices from reviewers).
In my case I have a single commit to maintain.
The workflow I use now is this:
1) create a topic branch, e.g. mp/complete-path
2) write code
3) commit
4) format-patch --output=mp/complete-patch master
5) review the patch
6) send-email
when I need to update the patch:
1) modify code
2) commit --amend
3) format-patch --subject-prefix="PATCH v<n>" \
--output=mp/complete-patch master
4) edit patch to add a list of what was changed
5) review the patch
6) send-email
This is far from ideal, since all my local changes are lost.
Another problem is that when I found some trivial error in 5), I need to
call format-patch again, loosing the "what's changed list".
A possible solution is to:
1) create a "public" topic branch, e.g. mp/complete-patch
2) create the associated "private" topic branch, e.g.
mp/complete-patch/private
...
Changes are committed to the private branch.
When I need to update the patch:
1) update code
2) commit new changes; the commit message will contain the
"what's changed" list to be used for the new version of the patch
3) checkout <public branch>
4) merge --squash <private branch>
Now I have my full history, and the "what's changed list" is saved in
the private commits.
(not tested)
What is the workflow you usually use?
Thanks Manlio
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