On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 22:24 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > Dmitry Timoshkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Zachary Goldberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Policy is that all patches should be independent, no? > > > > There is no such a policy. Dependent patches are marked as > > 1/xx, 2/xx, ... xx/xx. > > That's a patch series, and patchwatcher handles that ok. > > There's another kind of dependent patch, where somebody > says "This requires Harold's patch from yesterday". > Patchwatcher probably isn't going to handle that ever.
What about checking for a string in the email like "patchwatchignore"; if for some reason the patch is known to cause a failure the e-mail might read like: patchwatchignore This depends on Harald's patch from yesterday... [patch] This also might be useful for patches which update comments or README files, etc.