On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 12:50:54PM -0400, Ihar Hrachyshka wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 12:46 PM Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 12:24:11PM -0400, Ihar Hrachyshka wrote: > > > One, HEAD~, not HEAD, should be used to generate any patches. Two, add > > > "ovn" to the generated mail topic. Third, update branch name to a > > > fresh one. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrac...@redhat.com> > > > > Both of these look odd to me: > > > - $ git format-patch HEAD --subject-prefix="PATCH branch-2.7" > > > + $ git format-patch HEAD~ --subject-prefix="PATCH ovn branch-21.06" > > > > I think the idea here is to just generate one patch from the tip of the > > current branch. HEAD~ works but I'd normally write -1 instead. > > > > Yes. But HEAD doesn't generate any patches since it's a head and there > are no patches "above" it. Am I missing something?
You're correct. -1 and HEAD~ have the same effect, but -1 is the more common way to write it. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
