Matthias Beyer <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi, > > I have a problem related to my workflow when patching kernel sources. > What I do by now, when sending patches: > > scripts/get_maintainer.pl --file my/patched/file.c > > git format-patch -s -n --cover-letter > # and then appending _every single mail from the get_maintainer.pl > # call with either --to or --cc > # and the commit range You don't really need to append the addresses in this step. Using --to and --cc with "git send-email" is sufficient. > git send-email --no-chain-reply-to > # and then appending _every single mail from the get_maintainer.pl > # call with either --to or --cc > ./00* > > The second step is mainly copy-paste from the format-patch call, but I > guess you already notice my issue: I have to "hand-copy" every email > address from the get_maintainer.pl call. > > I also send my patches to two persons which do not get listed from the > get_maintainer.pl call most of the time, plus I do not send my patches > to the LKML directly (but the driverdev ML). > > I consider this hard work, especially when having a lot of _small_ > patchsets, as I do this for every single patchset and it really annoys > me. > > Are there tools somewhere to simplify these steps? Something like > > "generate & send patches from bla-blubb...foobazbar" > > and then it: > > 1) Gets mailaddrs from get_maintainer.pl > 2) lets me add additional and delete receivers > 3) asks me which one gets a --to and which one a --cc > 4) generates the patches with format-patch > 5) (optionally) runs checkpatch.pl on it > 6) sends the patches with send-email after confirmation I don't think we want to automate the last step. Kernel coders are fast learners and "confirmation" is quickly turned into automatically pressing 'y' without thinking... > Are there some tools out there? Or how do you guys do this? Or are > there tweaks built-in in git that I don't know yet? I have wondered about the same thing wrt get_maintainer.pl and git send-email. You can of course script this somewhere else, but it seems to me that a new switch to get_maintainer.pl creating a suitable would be useful? (Note that the copy/paste can be made easier by using the existing switches: scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nomultiline --separator ", --cc=" --file my/patched/file.c but this can still be improved a lot) Bjørn _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
