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| author | Timothy Arceri <t_arceri@yahoo.com.au> | 2016-11-21 16:30:12 +0000 |
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| committer | Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com> | 2016-11-22 15:13:41 +0000 |
| commit | e260bfec04c7643649b88566460188fcafbb8356 (patch) | |
| tree | f6ad2077b9fb0d54a1044853a582ea54c6f68216 /docs/submittingpatches.html | |
| parent | 29c8a4a4cec1e7eb31df4a7218f2bd09854a8374 (diff) | |
docs/submitting patches: add git tips
v2: [Emil Velikov]
- Add the shorthand git send-email -vX
- Move to submittingpatches.html
- Add to the TOC.
v3: [Emil Velikov]
- Use @~8 instead of HEAD~8 (Nicolai)
Cc: Timothy Arceri <t_arceri@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Paul <brianp@vmware.com> (v1)
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/submittingpatches.html')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/submittingpatches.html | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/submittingpatches.html b/docs/submittingpatches.html index d3e86f5b44..d2b605bf87 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@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 @~8 # shorter version, inherited from git format-patch +</pre> +</ul> + </div> </body> |