Re: How to create the [PATCH 0/5] first email?

2012-09-23 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Saturday 2012-09-15 19:08, Junio C Hamano wrote: If you plan to use git send-email to send the final results out, you should consider git send-email as your MUA in the quoted paragraph. And that will be very platform independent viewpoint to see things from. git format-patch -o my-series/

Re: How to create the [PATCH 0/5] first email?

2012-09-18 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King p...@peff.net writes: But even without that, I still think format-patch is a reasonable time to do it. It is the time when I proof-read my commit message and patch in its final form, and think do I really want to send this?. But it is not like I cannot sign off because I think it is

Re: How to create the [PATCH 0/5] first email?

2012-09-18 Thread Jeff King
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:11:58PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: Jeff King p...@peff.net writes: But even without that, I still think format-patch is a reasonable time to do it. It is the time when I proof-read my commit message and patch in its final form, and think do I really want to

Re: How to create the [PATCH 0/5] first email?

2012-09-18 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King p...@peff.net writes: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:11:58PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: Jeff King p...@peff.net writes: But even without that, I still think format-patch is a reasonable time to do it. It is the time when I proof-read my commit message and patch in its final

Re: How to create the [PATCH 0/5] first email?

2012-09-18 Thread Philip Oakley
From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com have anything to do with DCO in any case? Junio, What's DCO an abbreviation of? Philip -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at

Re: How to create the [PATCH 0/5] first email?

2012-09-18 Thread Jeff King
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:47:36PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: Jeff King p...@peff.net writes: But even without that, I still think format-patch is a reasonable time to do it. It is the time when I proof-read my commit message and patch in its final form, and think do I really want

Re: How to create the [PATCH 0/5] first email?

2012-09-18 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Monday, September 17, 2012 17:49:39 Junio C Hamano wrote: Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes: I then applied it (using git am) to a temp branch to see what it produced, and could repeat the cycle until the patches looked right. That's another obvious and valid way to prepare your

Re: How to create the [PATCH 0/5] first email?

2012-09-17 Thread Philip Oakley
From: Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes: Typically it will be placed in a MUA’s drafts folder, edited to add timely commentary that should not go in the changelog after the three dashes, and then sent as a message whose body, in our example, starts with

Re: How to create the [PATCH 0/5] first email?

2012-09-17 Thread Junio C Hamano
Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes: I then applied it (using git am) to a temp branch to see what it produced, and could repeat the cycle until the patches looked right. That's another obvious and valid way to prepare your series. It all depends on how comfortable you are to directly

Re: How to create the [PATCH 0/5] first email?

2012-09-17 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jeff King p...@peff.net writes: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 04:49:39PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: However, when it came to creating the series, with comments, I couldn't see a way of having my comments within my local commits, but preparing a patch series that would properly include the

How to create the [PATCH 0/5] first email?

2012-09-15 Thread Philip Oakley
The git format-patch allows numbered patches to be created, however I'm not sure how folk generate the initial 0/n patch. Which of the various options should I be using? Also, being on windows, the various 'mbox' and 'MUA' discussions are new to me, so the format-patch step where :- Typically

Re: How to create the [PATCH 0/5] first email?

2012-09-15 Thread Junio C Hamano
Philip Oakley philipoak...@iee.org writes: Typically it will be placed in a MUA’s drafts folder, edited to add timely commentary that should not go in the changelog after the three dashes, and then sent as a message whose body, in our example, starts with arch/arm config files were…. On the