On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 6:46 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 11:06:05AM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote: >> Hi >> >> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 6:33 AM, Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com> wrote: >> > git-publish [1] is a convenient tool to send patches and has been >> > popular among QEMU developers. Recently it has been made available in >> > Fedora official repo thanks to Stefan's work. >> > >> > One nice feature of the tool is a per-project configuration with >> > profiles, especially in which the cccmd option is a handy method to >> > create the Cc list. >> > >> > [1]: https://github.com/stefanha/git-publish >> >> It would be worth to update README "Submitting patches" with an example > > Good idea! > > The workflow for a new patch series is: > > $ git checkout -b my-feature > ...work on feature... > $ git publish > > Your patch series has been tagged as my-feature-v1 if you need to refer > back to it in the future. > > Sending v2: > > $ git checkout my-feature # same topic branch > ...work on feature... > $ git publish > > Your patch series has been tagged as my-feature-v2.
Will add a paragraph in README. > >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com> >> > --- >> > .gitpublish | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> > 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+) >> > create mode 100644 .gitpublish >> > >> > diff --git a/.gitpublish b/.gitpublish >> > new file mode 100644 >> > index 0000000000..2099c1520f >> > --- /dev/null >> > +++ b/.gitpublish >> > @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ >> > +# >> > +# Common git-publish profiles that can be used to send patches to QEMU >> > upstream. >> > +# >> > +# See https://github.com/stefanha/git-publish for more information >> > +# >> > +[gitpublishprofile "qemu"] > > Please rename the "qemu" profile to "default". This way no --profile > needs to be given: > > $ git publish > > The default profile settings can be overridden by command-line options > and branch-specific settings. Yes, good idea. Fam
