Hi all,
I was looking at the patch queue and see patches with different formats.
If we can standardize on what rest of the linux kernel follows it would
be nice.
First line should be
<subsystem_name>: A single line description of the patch.
This appear in the subject line of the mail that results from different
commit list.
eg: ext4: Uninitialized block group support
From: <Author of the patch>
This should be a valid email id. For example stgit checks for the
author to be a valid email id.
<Description of the fix>
Signed-off-by:
Reviewed-by:
What is missing in the patch queue is the First line for most of the patch.
Below is the steps i follow to manage patch queue.
One linux kernel repository:
[master@linux-review-ext4]$ git checkout -b review v2.6.23-rc6
Switched to a new branch "review"
[review@linux-review-ext4]$ stg init
[review@linux-review-ext4]$ stg import --series /home/opensource/patches/ext4-patch-queue/series
Now we should verify patches and make sure they look the way we wanted them in Linus tree by git log
After:
stg pop -> similar to quilt pop
stg push -> similar to quilt push
To edit the commit message
stg edit
To add sign-off or ack
stg edit --sign
stg edit --ack
To change the author name
stg edit --author
Now once we are sure all are fine
stg export -d /home/new-patch-queue-set/
This should get a patch set with quilt series
To find stgit:
http://procode.org/stgit/
-aneesh
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