Re: Support for a series of patches, i.e. patchset or changeset?

2012-11-10 Thread Eric Miao
Yeah, that's a very clean way I'd always want to follow, yet the kernel upstream isn't doing so. On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > yet another idea: > > you coud always put your patchsets into separate branches, > rebase them ontop target branch before merging, and the

Re: Support for a series of patches, i.e. patchset or changeset?

2012-11-08 Thread Eric Miao
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Jeff King wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 08:58:35AM +0800, Eric Miao wrote: > >> > So, then the question is: What do you know/have? Is your patch the >> > output of "git format-patch", "git diff", or just some s

Re: Support for a series of patches, i.e. patchset or changeset?

2012-11-06 Thread Eric Miao
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Am 11/6/2012 7:56, schrieb Eric Miao: >> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote: >>> Am 11/6/2012 1:58, schrieb Eric Miao: >>>> E.g. when we merged a series of patches: >>>>

Re: Support for a series of patches, i.e. patchset or changeset?

2012-11-05 Thread Eric Miao
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Am 11/6/2012 1:58, schrieb Eric Miao: >> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Michael J Gruber >> wrote: >>> Eric Miao venit, vidit, dixit 05.11.2012 15:12: >>>> The problem is, most cases we have no idea of

Re: Support for a series of patches, i.e. patchset or changeset?

2012-11-05 Thread Eric Miao
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Michael J Gruber wrote: > Eric Miao venit, vidit, dixit 05.11.2012 15:12: >> The problem is, most cases we have no idea of the base rev1, and commit rev2 >> which it's leading up to. E.g. for a single patch which is between >> commit rev

Re: Support for a series of patches, i.e. patchset or changeset?

2012-11-05 Thread Eric Miao
The problem is, most cases we have no idea of the base rev1, and commit rev2 which it's leading up to. E.g. for a single patch which is between commit rev1..rev2, how do we find out rev1 and rev2. On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Michael J Gruber wrote: > Eric Miao venit, vidit, dixit 05