[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] python-pyusb: new package
Baruch Siach
baruch at tkos.co.il
Mon Oct 28 08:40:25 UTC 2013
Hi Arnout,
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 09:24:59AM +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> On 28/10/13 09:10, Baruch Siach wrote:
> >On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 08:12:21AM +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> >>On 26/10/13 09:33, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:
> >>>On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 1:41 AM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
> >>>> Also, when sending an update, it is customary to add v2 to the subject
> >>>> so
> >>>>people can see which version is the latest one. You can do that by calling
> >>>>git send-email -v2 # Since git 1.8.x
> >>>>or
> >>>>git send-email --subject-prefix='PATCH v2'
> >>>
> >>>It seems, that the above should be applied to git format-patch, not
> >>>git send-email?
> >>
> >> You're right, but git send-email takes (almost) all of the options
> >>of git format-patch if you let it generate patches directly (e.g.
> >>with 'git send-email -1). Normally I don't bother with generating
> >>the patches separately and just mail them immediately - and I
> >>assumed that the rest of the world does the same :-).
>
> >How do you add patch version changelog then?
>
> Manually with git commit --amend.
But with 'commit --amend' you can only edit the log message itself, not the
part below the '---' separator where patches changelog usually go.
baruch
> There is no way AFAIK to ensure consistency between the patch
> changelog and the -v option you pass to send-email/format-patch.
> There are a few tools like topgit and guilt that are supposed to
> make it easier to manage a patch with changelog, but I found them
> difficult to use.
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