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#
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-# project.
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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
#
What is this?
How to configure it
===================
-For most cases of using patman for U-Boot developement patman will
+For most cases of using patman for U-Boot development, patman will
locate and use the file 'doc/git-mailrc' in your U-Boot directory.
This contains most of the aliases you will need.
Sets the cover letter contents for the series. The first line
will become the subject of the cover letter
+Cover-letter-cc: email / alias
+ Additional email addresses / aliases to send cover letter to (you
+ can add this multiple times)
+
Series-notes:
blah blah
blah blah
together and put after the cover letter. Can appear multiple
times.
+Commit-notes:
+blah blah
+blah blah
+more blah blah
+END
+ Similar, but for a single commit (patch). These notes will appear
+ immediately below the --- cut in the patch file.
+
Signed-off-by: Their Name <email>
A sign-off is added automatically to your patches (this is
probably a bug). If you put this tag in your patches, it will
override the default signoff that patman automatically adds.
+ Multiple duplicate signoffs will be removed.
Tested-by: Their Name <email>
+ Reviewed-by: Their Name <email>
Acked-by: Their Name <email>
- These indicate that someone has acked or tested your patch.
+ These indicate that someone has tested/reviewed/acked your patch.
When you get this reply on the mailing list, you can add this
tag to the relevant commit and the script will include it when
you send out the next version. If 'Tested-by:' is set to
to update the log there and then, knowing that the script will
do the rest.
-Cc: Their Name <email>
- This copies a single patch to another email address.
+Patch-cc: Their Name <email>
+ This copies a single patch to another email address. Note that the
+ Cc: used by git send-email is ignored by patman, but will be
+ interpreted by git send-email if you use it.
+
+Series-process-log: sort, uniq
+ This tells patman to sort and/or uniq the change logs. It is
+ assumed that each change log entry is only a single line long.
+ Use 'sort' to sort the entries, and 'uniq' to include only
+ unique entries. If omitted, no change log processing is done.
+ Separate each tag with a comma.
Various other tags are silently removed, like these Chrome OS and
Gerrit tags:
Change-Id:
Review URL:
Reviewed-on:
-Reviewed-by:
-
+Commit-xxxx: (except Commit-notes)
Exercise for the reader: Try adding some tags to one of your current
patch series and see how the patches turn out.
Once the patches are created, patman sends them using git send-email. The
whole series is sent to the recipients in Series-to: and Series-cc.
-You can Cc individual patches to other people with the Cc: tag. Tags in the
-subject are also picked up to Cc patches. For example, a commit like this:
+You can Cc individual patches to other people with the Patch-cc: tag. Tags
+in the subject are also picked up to Cc patches. For example, a commit like
+this:
>>>>
commit 10212537b85ff9b6e09c82045127522c0f0db981
This should make sending out e-mails to the right people easier.
- Cc: sandbox, mikef, ag
- Cc: afleming
+ Patch-cc: sandbox, mikef, ag
+ Patch-cc: afleming
<<<<
will create a patch which is copied to x86, arm, sandbox, mikef, ag and
afleming.
-If you have a cover letter it will get sent to the union of the CC lists of
-all of the other patches.
+If you have a cover letter it will get sent to the union of the Patch-cc
+lists of all of the other patches. If you want to sent it to additional
+people you can add a tag:
+
+Cover-letter-cc: <list of addresses>
+
+These people will get the cover letter even if they are not on the To/Cc
+list for any of the patches.
Example Work Flow
It would be nice if this could handle the In-reply-to side of things.
-The tests are incomplete, as is customary. Use the -t flag to run them,
-and make sure you are in the tools/scripts/patman directory first:
+The tests are incomplete, as is customary. Use the --test flag to run them,
+and make sure you are in the tools/patman directory first:
$ cd /path/to/u-boot
- $ cd tools/scripts/patman
- $ patman -t
+ $ cd tools/patman
+ $ ./patman --test
Error handling doesn't always produce friendly error messages - e.g.
putting an incorrect tag in a commit may provide a confusing message.
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