[Intel-gfx] i-g-t/libdrm email tagging & patchwork

[Damien Lespiau]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 12:44:07PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2015, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 08, 2015 at 12:31:36AM +0000, Damien Lespiau wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> 
> >> I've added a feature to sort the patches sent to intel-gfx into 3
> >> buckets: i915, intel-gpu-tools and libdrm. This sorting relies on
> >> tagging patches, using the subject prefixes (which is what most people
> >> do already anyway).
> >> 
> >>   - i915 (intel-gfx): catchall project, all mails not matching any of
> >>     the other 2 projects will end up there
> >> 
> >>   - intel-gpu-tools: mails need to be tagged with i-g-t, igt or
> >>     intel-gpu-tools
> >> 
> >>   - libdrm-intel: mails need to be tagged with libdrm
> >> 
> >> This tagging can be set up per git repository with:
> >> 
> >>   $ git config format.subjectprefix "PATCH i-g-t"
> >
> > Is there any way we could push this out to users somehow? I have bazillion
> > of machines, I'll get this wrong eventually ... So will everyone else I
> > guess.
> 
> Googling around, I don't think we can automatically force this on
> people. We could add a script to make it easier for people to set this
> up. Either a setup that needs to be re-run every time there are changes,
> or a setup that symlinks a git hook back into a file stored in the
> repository so changes are deployed automatically. The latter has
> security implications, so I'd go for the former.

So, we could have:

  $ git pw init https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/ intel-gpu-tools

which would retrieve some server side config and shove it into
.gitconfig. That does require a step anyway though, not sure how ideal
this is or what else could be interesting to do with such a thing.

-- 
Damien