[Intel-gfx] [PATCH dim v2 1/2] dim: Add extract-tags command

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Wed Mar 15 15:15:16 UTC 2017


On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 05:09:04PM +0200, ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com wrote:
> From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> 
> Add a command for extracting various tags (eg. Reviwed-by:) from
> emails. You can give the comamnd a rangeish to add the tags from
> the same email to multiple already applied patches.
> 
> The regexp used to pick up tags is purposefully quite broad. People
> tend to typo these things, or add extra whitespace etc. However the
> broad regexp does mean this occasionally picks up stuff that isn't
> a tag. So manually amending the commit is probably a wise idea,
> and so I simply decided to also leave a '--- extracted tags ---'
> separator in the commit message just before the extracted tags,
> which can be cleaned up manually when verifying that the tags look
> correct.

An example of typical use would be nice.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre


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