By default patman generates a combined changelog for the cover letter. This
may not always be desirable.
Many patches may have the same changes. These can be coalesced with
"Series-process-log: uniq", but this is imperfect. Similar changes like
"Move foo to patch 7" will not be merged with the similar "Move foo to this
patch from patch 6".
Changes may not make sense outside of the patch they are written for. For
example, a change line of "Add check for bar" does not make sense outside
of the context in which bar might be checked for. Some changes like "New"
or "Lint" may be repeated many times throughout different change logs, but
carry no useful information in a summary.
Lastly, I like to summarize the broad strokes of the changes I have made in
the cover letter, while documenting all the details in the appropriate
patches. I think this makes it easier to get a good feel for what has
changed, without making it difficult to wade through every change in the
whole series.
This patch adds two new tags to add changelog entries which only appear in
the cover letter, or only appear in the commit. Changes documented with
"Commit-changes" will only appear in the commit, and will not appear in the
cover letter. Changes documented with "Cover-changes" will not appear in
any commit, and will only appear in the cover letter.
Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <seanga2@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Patman outputs a line for every edition of the series in every patch,
regardless of whether any changes were made. This can result in many
redundant lines in patch changelogs, especially when a patch did not exist
before a certain revision. For example, the existing behaviour could result
in a changelog of
Changes in v7: None
Changes in v6: None
Changes in v5:
- Make a change
Changes in v4: None
Changes in v3:
- New
Changes in v2: None
With this patch applied and with --no-empty-changes, the same patch would
look like
(no changes since v5)
Changes in v5:
- Make a change
Changes in v3:
- New
This is entirely aesthetic, but I think it reduces clutter, especially for
patches added later on in a series.
Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <seanga2@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present patman sets the python path on startup so that it can access
the libraries it needs. If we convert to use absolute imports this is not
necessary.
Move patman to use absolute imports. This requires changes in tools which
use the patman libraries (which is most of them).
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Quite often on a series that has clean-up patches, the individual patches
may fit within the cc limit but the cover letter does not. Apply the same
limit to the cover letter.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
fixes: 8ab452d587
When compiling list of cover letter cc addresses, using null as a
separater, then encoding to utf-8 results in lots of "\x00" as
separators. patman then doesnt understand that when it comes to
repoting the list to send-email.
Fix this by not encoding to utf-8, as done for the other patch files.
Signed-off-by: Robert Beckett <bob.beckett@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present patman test fail in some environments which don't use utf-8
as the default file encoding. Add this explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
There is a contributor in Linux kernel with a comma in their name, which
confuses patman and results in invalid to- or cc- addresses on some
patches. To avoid this, let's use \0 as a separator when generating cc
file.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
We use sets to produce the list of To and Cc lines for a series. This does
not result in stable ordering of the recipients. Sort each list to ensure
that the output is repeatable. This is necessary for tests.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Create helper functions in the tools module to deal with the differences
between unicode in Python 2 (where we use the 'unicode' type) and Python 3
(where we use the 'str' type).
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Many mailing-lists consider a long Cc list a sign of spam and will
either drop the message or mark it for moderation. Because patman
automatically invokes get_maintainer.pl the Cc list can expand
unexpectedly. Allow the user to specify a limit for the Cc list.
This limit is applied after removing any known bouncing addresses. By
default no limit is applied.
Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
When U-Boot started using SPDX tags we were among the early adopters and
there weren't a lot of other examples to borrow from. So we picked the
area of the file that usually had a full license text and replaced it
with an appropriate SPDX-License-Identifier: entry. Since then, the
Linux Kernel has adopted SPDX tags and they place it as the very first
line in a file (except where shebangs are used, then it's second line)
and with slightly different comment styles than us.
In part due to community overlap, in part due to better tag visibility
and in part for other minor reasons, switch over to that style.
This commit changes all instances where we have a single declared
license in the tag as both the before and after are identical in tag
contents. There's also a few places where I found we did not have a tag
and have introduced one.
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Add support for reading a list of bouncing addresses from a in-tree file
(doc/bounces) and from the ~/.patman config file. These addresses are
stripped from the Cc list.
Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich@theobroma-systems.com <mailto:philipp.tomsich@theobroma-systems.com>>
This is not a good variable name in Python because 'list' is a type. It
shows up highlighted in some editors. Rename it.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich@theobroma-systems.com>
Allow the add_maintainers parameter to be a list of maintainers, thus
allowing us to simulate calling the script in tests without actually
needing it to work.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich@theobroma-systems.com>
Don't mess with the email address when outputting them. Just make sure
they are encoded with utf-8.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich@theobroma-systems.com>
This change encodes the CC list to UTF-8 to avoid failures on
maintainer-addresses that include non-ASCII characters (observed on
Debian 7.11 with Python 2.7.3).
Without this, I get the following failure:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "tools/patman/patman", line 159, in <module>
options.add_maintainers)
File "[snip]/u-boot/tools/patman/series.py", line 234, in MakeCcFile
print(commit.patch, ', '.join(set(list)), file=fd)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 81: ordinal not in range(128)
from Heiko's email address:
[..., u'"Heiko St\xfcbner" <heiko@sntech.de>', ...]
While with this change added this encodes to:
"=?UTF-8?q?Heiko=20St=C3=BCbner?= <heiko@sntech.de>"
Signed-off-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich@theobroma-systems.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich@theobroma-systems.com>
When gathering addresses for the Cc list patman would encounter a
UnicodeDecodeError due to non-ascii characters in the author name.
Address this by explicitly using utf-8 when building the Cc list.
Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
In python 3.x, print must be used as a function call. Convert all print
statements to the function call style, importing from __future__ where
we print with no trailing newline or print to a file object.
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
In preparation for running on python 3.x, which will refuse to run
scripts which mix tabs & spaces for indentation, replace 2 tab
characters present in series.py with spaces.
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
A patman series with a 'Series-notes' section causes
buildman to crash with:
self.series.notes += self.section
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'list' objects
Fix by initializing series.notes as a one-element array
rather than a scalar.
Signed-off-by: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
For the local project, we may specified format.subjectprefix setting.
Then the patch will be formated as [Project_prefix][PATCH].
But patman will not check this setting. It will remove the
format.subjectprefix.
So This patch will let patman check this setting and add it as a
project prefix.
Signed-off-by: Josh Wu <josh.wu@atmel.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
When run with the --dry-run argument patman prints out information
showing what it would do. This information currently doesn't line up
with what patman/git send-email really do. Some basic examples:
- If an email address is addressed via "Series-cc" and "Patch-cc" patman
shows that email address would be CC-ed two times.
- If an email address is addressed via "Series-to" and "Patch-cc" patman
shows that email address would be sent TO and CC-ed.
- If an email address is addressed from a combination of tag aliases,
get_maintainer.pl output, "Series-cc", "Patch-cc", etc patman shows
that the email address would be CC-ed multiple times.
Patman currently does try to send duplicate emails like the --dry-run
output shows, but "git send-email" intelligently removes duplicate
addresses so this patch shouldn't change the non-dry-run functionality.
Change patman's output and email addressing to line up with the
"git send-email" logic. This trims down patman's dry-run output and
prevents confusion about what patman will do when emails are actually
sent.
Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
The get_maintainers script is a useful default, but sometimes is copies
too many people, or takes a long time to run.
Add an option to disable it and update the README.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Conflicting tags can prevent buildman from building two series which exist
one after the other in a branch. There is no reason not to allow this sort
of workflow with buildman, so ignore conflicting tags in buildman.
Change-Id: I2231d04d8684fe0f8fe77f8ea107e5899a3da5e8
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
For some series with lots of changes it is annoying that duplicate change
log items are not caught. It is also helpful sometimes to sort the change
logs.
Add a Series-process-log tag to enable this, which can be placed in a
commit to control this.
The change to the Cc: line is to fix a checkpatch warning.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Often it happens that patches include tags which don't have aliases. It
is annoying that patman fails in this case, and provides no option to
continue other than adding empty tags to the .patman file.
Correct this by adding a '-t' option to ignore tags that don't exist.
Print a warning instead.
Since running the tests is not a common operation, move this to --test
instead, to reserve -t for this new option.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
The cover letter is sent to everyone who is on the Cc list for any of
the patches in the series. Sometimes it is useful to send just the cover
letter to additional people, so that they are aware of the series, but
don't need to wade through all the individual patches.
Add a new Cover-letter-cc tag for this purpose.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
For Linux the best way to figure out where to send a patch is with the
"get_maintainer.pl" script. Add support for calling it from patman.
Support is added unconditionally for "scripts/get_maintainer.pl" in
case it is helpful for any other projects.
Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
If we're sending a cover letter make sure to CC everyone that we're
CCing on each of the individual patches.
Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Currently we go through and generate the CC list for patches twice.
This gets slow when (in a future CL) we add a call to
get_maintainer.pl on Linux. Instead of doing things twice, just cache
the CC list when it is first generated.
Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Often a particular patch may change only for some versions of a series.
For versions where there is no change, issue a change log indicating
that (for example 'Changes in v4: None').
For such lines, don't add a blank line afterwards, to conserve space.
Use list.insert() instead of list = [item] + list.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Sometimes it is possible to forget the name of the branch you used to
generate an upstream series. To assist with this, add an optional
patman does not use this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Specially when many revisions are need for a patchset, the most
interesting information is about the last set of changes so we output
the changelog in reverse order to easy identification of most recent
change set.
Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
In case an address is listed in the To list, those will be skipped on
Cc list or user might end with a duplicated message.
This fixes the case when a tag points to same address used as series
destination thus avoiding duplicated sending.
Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>
When a patchset had a RFC series, a v1 might have a changelog of
changes done since the RFC. The patch changes the range checked for
changelog and allow it to start for version 1.
Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>
Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Don't try to sort and uniq changelog entries as this breaks
multiline entries. It will be better to add some real multi-line
support but for now just preserve the entries as is.
Signed-off-by: Ilya Yanok <ilya.yanok@cogentembedded.com>
What is this?
=============
This tool is a Python script which:
- Creates patch directly from your branch
- Cleans them up by removing unwanted tags
- Inserts a cover letter with change lists
- Runs the patches through checkpatch.pl and its own checks
- Optionally emails them out to selected people
It is intended to automate patch creation and make it a less
error-prone process. It is useful for U-Boot and Linux work so far,
since it uses the checkpatch.pl script.
It is configured almost entirely by tags it finds in your commits.
This means that you can work on a number of different branches at
once, and keep the settings with each branch rather than having to
git format-patch, git send-email, etc. with the correct parameters
each time. So for example if you put:
in one of your commits, the series will be sent there.
See the README file for full details.
END
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
