Re: Stable -rc git trees and email headers

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On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 08:11:41AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 08:02:14AM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > Kevin, hopefully this tree also helps you.  I will also be adding some
> > > email headers to my announcements of the -rc releases that you can
> > > parse.  Here is what they are going to look like for an example release:
> > >
> > > X-KernelTest-Patch: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.14-rc1.gz
> > > X-KernelTest-Tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
> > > X-KernelTest-Branch: linux-4.4.y
> > > X-KernelTest-Patches: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git
> > > X-KernelTest-Version: 4.4.14-rc1
> > > X-KernelTest-Deadline: 2016-06-20T02:57+00:00
> > >
> > > Will those work out?
> > 
> > Can you add one more:  X-KernelTest-PatchCount ?
> > 
> > Which would include the total number of patches in the series/branch?
> > This will help us determine uniqueness for a given branch.
> 
> What do you mean by "uniqueness"?
> 
> As these are going to be the -rc releases, they will be unique from any
> other -rc release.

I guess he means between incremental updates, though that doesn't work
if you drop a patch.

Willy
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