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From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>
To: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] patch, fix broken seed stage update
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:12:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130227121244.GA28349@odin.tremily.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1361930694.3997.297.camel@big_daddy.dol-sen.ca>

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On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 06:04:54PM -0800, Brian Dolbec wrote:
> I tried using git to send this patch, but it did not work.  I'll look
> into how to make it work with email.
> …
> I will continue to spam the list with all my rebased commits, which I
> intended to do when I had more time.  I sent this one off this morning
> before I went to work.  I know Jorge was interested in the changes.  I'm
> back now, so will manually prepare more patch mails.

It looks like you're pasting diffs into your email client, which makes
it harder for others to apply them with `git am`.  When I'm submitting
patches via email, I usually do something like:

  $ git format-patch --cover-letter -v3 -o my-fix $(git merge-base my-fix master)
  $ emacs my-fix/v3-0000-cover-letter.patch
    … fill in subject and summarize changes since v2 …
  $ git send-email --to gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org \
      --in-reply-to '<message-id-for-v2@me.invalid>' my-fix/v3-*

Where `my-fix` is the name of my feature branch.  The `-v3` option
requires Git ≥1.8.2 for -v/--reroll-count, before that you had to use
something like `--subject-prefix 'PATCH v3'` [1].

By default, `send-email` will try and send the emails with `sendmail`.
If you don't have a working version of sendmail installed, you can
configure it to use SMTP instead [2,3].

By using the format-patch/send-email pair, you avoid copy/paste errors
and tedium.  You also have author information and commit messages
preserved in a form that `git am` understands.  Wins for everybody ;).

Cheers,
Trevor

[1]: http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-format-patch.html
[2]: http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
[3]: http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-config.html

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-27 12:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-26 16:20 [gentoo-catalyst] patch, fix broken seed stage update Brian Dolbec
2013-02-26 16:37 ` W. Trevor King
2013-02-26 16:47   ` Brian Dolbec
2013-02-26 16:48     ` Peter Stuge
2013-02-26 17:29 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-02-26 19:39   ` Matt Turner
2013-02-27  2:04     ` Brian Dolbec
2013-02-27  2:37       ` Matt Turner
2013-02-27 12:12       ` W. Trevor King [this message]
2013-02-27  2:37 ` Matt Turner
2013-02-27  3:03   ` Brian Dolbec
2013-02-27  3:22     ` Matt Turner
2013-02-27  3:49       ` Brian Dolbec
2013-03-08 17:27 ` [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH v2] Remove update_seed_command and strengthen update_seed W. Trevor King
2013-03-08 18:34   ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-03-08 18:47     ` [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH v3] Strengthen update_seed to update @system and @world with dependencies W. Trevor King
2013-03-08 20:14       ` Matt Turner
2013-03-09 12:10         ` [gentoo-catalyst] " W. Trevor King
2013-04-11 17:09           ` [gentoo-catalyst] Binary package dependencies and update_seed W. Trevor King
2013-04-11 17:39             ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-04-11 17:52               ` W. Trevor King
2013-04-12 15:12                 ` [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH] files/catalyst.conf: Document linking issues with binary packages W. Trevor King
2013-04-12 15:21                   ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-04-12 15:33                     ` W. Trevor King
2013-04-12 16:11                       ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-04-12 18:21                         ` [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH v2 0/2] pkgcache warning in catalyst-config(5) W. Trevor King
2013-04-12 18:21                           ` [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH v2 1/2] doc/catalyst-config.5.txt: Add man page for catalyst.conf W. Trevor King
2013-04-12 18:27                             ` [gentoo-catalyst] " W. Trevor King
2013-04-12 18:47                             ` [gentoo-catalyst] " Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-04-12 19:05                               ` W. Trevor King
2013-04-12 19:30                                 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-04-16  1:33                                   ` [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH v3 0/2] pkgcache warning in catalyst-config(5) W. Trevor King
2013-04-16  1:33                                     ` [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH v3 1/2] doc/catalyst-config.5.txt: Add man page for catalyst.conf W. Trevor King
2013-04-16  1:33                                     ` [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH v3 2/2] doc/catalyst-config.5.txt: Document linking issues with binary packages W. Trevor King
2013-12-14  5:41                                     ` [gentoo-catalyst] Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] pkgcache warning in catalyst-config(5) W. Trevor King
2013-04-12 18:21                           ` [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH v2 2/2] doc/catalyst-config.5.txt: Document linking issues with binary packages W. Trevor King
2013-04-11 18:20               ` [gentoo-catalyst] Binary package dependencies and update_seed Matt Turner
2013-04-11 18:22             ` Matt Turner
2013-04-11 18:53               ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-04-11 19:00                 ` W. Trevor King
2013-04-11 19:03                 ` Matt Turner
2013-04-11 19:18                   ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-04-11 20:24                     ` Matt Turner
2013-04-11 20:34                       ` W. Trevor King
2013-04-12  1:11                         ` W. Trevor King
2013-04-11 20:37                       ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-04-11 18:53               ` W. Trevor King
2013-04-12  6:57                 ` Brian Dolbec
2013-04-16 19:42           ` [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH 0/2] Blacklisting binary packages W. Trevor King
2013-04-16 19:42             ` [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH 1/2] spec: Add binpkg_blacklist option for troublesome packages W. Trevor King
2013-04-16 19:42             ` [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH 2/2] Revert "don't build packages during update_seed" W. Trevor King
2013-04-16 20:35             ` [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH 0/2] Blacklisting binary packages Matt Turner
2013-04-16 20:59               ` W. Trevor King
     [not found]                 ` <516DD074.3090906@gentoo.org>
2013-04-16 22:53                   ` W. Trevor King
2013-04-17  4:18                     ` Brian Dolbec
2013-04-17 11:30                       ` W. Trevor King
2013-04-17 14:57                         ` Matt Turner
2013-04-19 14:11             ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-04-19 16:18               ` W. Trevor King
2013-04-19 16:32                 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2013-04-19 16:36                   ` W. Trevor King
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-02-27 21:56 [gentoo-catalyst] [PATCH] Fix broken seed stage update Brian Dolbec
2013-01-08  8:32 [gentoo-catalyst] More proposed Catalyst changes Brian Dolbec
2013-01-08 18:08 ` Peter Stuge
2013-01-12  8:55 ` Brian Dolbec
2013-01-31 18:39   ` W. Trevor King
2013-01-31 19:46     ` W. Trevor King
2013-02-02 20:41       ` Brian Dolbec
2013-02-03 12:44         ` W. Trevor King
2013-04-11  2:06       ` [gentoo-catalyst] chmod +x all sh scripts so they can run from the git checkout W. Trevor King
2013-02-02 18:45     ` [gentoo-catalyst] More proposed Catalyst changes Brian Dolbec
2013-02-03 12:20       ` W. Trevor King
2013-02-26 18:04     ` [gentoo-catalyst] patch, fix broken seed stage update W. Trevor King
2013-02-27  1:30       ` Brian Dolbec
2013-02-27  1:40         ` W. Trevor King
2013-02-27  2:35           ` Brian Dolbec
2013-02-27  2:41             ` Matt Turner

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