xorg/driver/xf86-video-ast: [PATCH 1/2] Janitor: make distcheck, .gitignore.

[Dan Nicholson]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Paulo César Pereira de Andrade
<pcpa at mandriva.com.br> wrote:
> Dan Nicholson wrote:
>>
>> One thing that would be nice is if you could inline the patches. That
>> would make reviewing faster. Below is my git send-email cheat sheet if
>> that helps. You can always play around with --dry-run and see if the
>> right thing is being produced.
>
>  I experimented a bit with git send-email (and git imap-send and
> git request-pull as suggested in irc) before starting sending any
> new patches. But I preferred, at least for the moment to attach
> them so that it should work properly in any MUA, and make it easier
> to edit the subject to add repository information.
>
>> ~/.gitconfig settings
>> [sendemail]
>>       bcc = dbn.lists at gmail.com
>>       chainreplyto = false
>>       smtpserver = smtp.gmail.com
>>       smtpssl = true
>>       smtpuser = dbn.lists at gmail.com
>>       suppresscc = self
>>       #signedoffcc = false
>>       #suppressfrom = true
>>
>> Single patch: (add --no-thread to skip prompt for Message-ID):
>> git format-patch -s HEAD^
>> git send-email --to $list 0001-*.patch
>>
>> Patch series from branch:
>> git format-patch -n -s -o $patchdir --cover-letter master
>> $EDITOR $patchdir/0000-cover-letter.patch
>> git send-email --to $list $patchdir
>
>  The problem is that it makes it too hard to fetch the "verbatim",
> entire message if not using some specific MUAs.

I'm not sure I understand. If it's all inline text, what MUA can't
handle that? Or do you mean that you want to paste the patch into your
webmail MUA?

>  I talked to jcristau (after the problem where I did a cut&paste
> of the announce message for libXext, and the webmail interface
> was "smart enough to wrap lines" so that the pgp verification would
> fail) that I considered to make xmh an usable MUA, why not? But I
> don't think I would do it..., too much time and dedication required,
> and I think I already invested enough of my "free time" in
> Xaw and xedit in the past :-)

Certainly if you're using pgp, it becomes more difficult. But I don't
think you'd try to use git-send-email to write an announcement
message.

Anyway, not a big deal.

P.S. Moved the discussion to xorg-devel.

--
Dan