[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 1/1] docs/website: contribute.txt update with useful tips on patch versioning and patch submission

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Tue Sep 15 20:35:03 UTC 2015


On 15-09-15 16:03, Fabio Porcedda wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Francesco Nwokeka <francesco.nwokeka at gmail.com
> <mailto:francesco.nwokeka at gmail.com>> wrote:
[snip]
>     +You can also add the +--in-reply-to <message-id>+ flag when
>     +submitting a patch to the mailing list. The id of the mail
>     +to reply to can be found under the "Message Id" tag on
>     +http://patchwork.buildroot.org[patchwork].
>     +The advantage of *in-reply-to* is that patchwork will automatically mark the
>     +previous patch as superseded.
>     +
> 
> 
> I've sent the "[PATCH v2] barebox: bump to version
> 2015.09.0"(http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2015-September/139495.html)
> using the --in-reply-to option of format-patch, but patchwork didn't make the v1
> as superseded, I've done something wrong?
> 
> v2: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/517503/
> v1: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/517494/

 Weird, that normally should work, I've checked the headers and they look OK...
Patchwork isn't perfect about making the link but with in-reply-to I've not seen
it go wrong yet.

 I've now manually marked the v1 as superseded.

 Regards,
 Arnout


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