[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] docs/submitting patches: add git tips

[Timothy Arceri]

On 22 November 2016 3:37:32 am AEDT, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>From: Timothy Arceri <t_arceri at yahoo.com.au>
>
>v2: [Emil Velikov]
> - Add the shorthand git send-email -vX
> - Move to submittingpatches.html
> - Add to the TOC.
>
>Cc: Timothy Arceri <t_arceri at yahoo.com.au>
>Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
>Reviewed-by: Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com> (v1)
>---
>Tim any objections on merging this ? IMHO these are quite useful.

No objections I was just to lazy to make the suggested updates. Thanks for doing this :-) 

>---
> docs/submittingpatches.html | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
>
>diff --git a/docs/submittingpatches.html b/docs/submittingpatches.html
>index d3e86f5..7ada508 100644
>--- a/docs/submittingpatches.html
>+++ b/docs/submittingpatches.html
>@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
> <li><a href="#reviewing">Reviewing Patches</a>
> <li><a href="#nominations">Nominating a commit for a stable branch</a>
><li><a href="#criteria">Criteria for accepting patches to the stable
>branch</a>
>+<li><a href="#gittips">Git tips</a>
> </ul>
> 
> <h2 id="guidelines">Basic guidelines</h2>
>@@ -317,6 +318,25 @@ be rejected:
>   regression that is unaacceptable for the stable branch.</li>
> </ul>
> 
>+<h2 id="gittips">Git tips</h2>
>+
>+<ul>
>+<li>Test for build breakage between patches e.g last 8 commits.
>+<pre>
>+    git rebase -i --exec="make -j4" HEAD~8
>+</pre>
>+<li>Sets the default mailing address for your repo.
>+<pre>
>+    git config --local sendemail.to mesa-dev at lists.freedesktop.org
>+</pre>
>+<li> Add version to subject line of patch series in this case for the
>last 8
>+commits before sending.
>+<pre>
>+    git send-email --subject-prefix="PATCH v4" HEAD~8
>+    git send-email -v4 HEAD~8 # shorter version, 'inherited' from git
>format-patch
>+</pre>
>+</ul>
>+
> 
> </div>
> </body>