On 3 March 2016 at 16:32, Programmingkid <programmingk...@gmail.com> wrote: > I did a lot of google searching yesterday on this problem. I much > rather spend my time working to better QEMU than on some git feature > I rather not use.
You don't have to use git send-email if you can get the emails to appear on the list correctly formatted and threaded via some other mechanism. We just suggest it because it's usually the easiest. As usual with issues of style and presentation with patches, there is a trade off between time spent by the submitter of patches, and time spent by those who review, test and apply the patches. The project's preferences are optimised to make things easy for reviewers, because (like many open source projects) we are always short of people with the time and expertise to review incoming patches, so we try to make it easy for them. For first-time patch submitters we generally don't insist on exact following of the rules because it's mostly easier to just fix things up by hand for a one-off and it's friendlier to new contributors. But if you're a more regular contributor you shouldn't be surprised if reviewers start to say "look, please just follow our workflow" after a while. thanks -- PMM
