[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: add patch submit cheatsheet

Yuanhan Liu yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com
Thu Dec 10 02:37:57 CET 2015


On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 04:53:45PM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 04:47:42PM +0000, Van Haaren, Harry wrote:
> > > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com]
> > > It would be better with a colon:
> > > 	Fixes: line
> > 
> > Ok, will send a v2 with that fix.
> > 
> > > > git send-email -N --to 
> > > Why -N?
> > 
> > -N sets the Number of patches to send, when not sending .patch files but sending the latest commits of the current branch in git.
> > 
> > Would you prefer if the sending of .patch files was documented? I'm indifferent - but learned the -N way first :)
> 
> >From my point of view, yes. I think using format-patch followed by a separate
> send-email is a better, and safer, workflow, as it allows multiple edits and
> checks of the patches before sending.

+1

	--yliu


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