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>
