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2015-01-30patman: Explain how to make doc/git-mailrc workSimon Glass
Add an explanation for how to set up git so that patman can find the alias file. Fix up the get_maintainers message too. Reported-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2014-09-21patman: Add a -m option to avoid copying the maintainersSimon Glass
The get_maintainers script is a useful default, but sometimes is copies too many people, or takes a long time to run. Add an option to disable it and update the README. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2014-05-09patman: Avoid duplicate sign-offsSimon Glass
Keep track of all Signed-off-by tags in a commit and silently suppress any duplicates. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2014-03-22patman: Use Patch-cc: instead of Cc:Simon Glass
Add a new Patch-cc: tag which performs the service now provided by the Cc: tag. The Cc: tag is interpreted by git send-email but ignored by patman. So now: Cc: patman does nothing. (git send-email can cc patches) Patch-cc: patman Cc's patch and removes this tag from the patch Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2013-11-21patman: add Commit-notes tag and sectionAlbert ARIBAUD
Sometimes a commit should have notes enclosed with it rather than withing the cover letter -- possibly even because there is no cover letter. Add a 'Commit-notes' tag, similar to the 'Series-notes' one; lines between this tag and the next END line are inserted in the patch right after the '---' commit delimiter. Change-Id: I01e99ae125607dc6dec08f3be8a5a0b37f0a483d Signed-off-by: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> (Updated README)
2013-07-24Add GPL-2.0+ SPDX-License-Identifier to source filesWolfgang Denk
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> [trini: Fixup common/cmd_io.c] Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
2013-07-15patman: README documentation nits (unit test)Gerhard Sittig
adjust instructions for the invocation of Patman's self test: the -t flag appears to have a different meaning now, refer to the --test option for the builtin unit test; adjust a directory location and make sure to run the file which resides in the source directory Signed-off-by: Gerhard Sittig <gsi@denx.de> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2013-04-08patman: Add Series-process-log tag to sort/uniq change logsSimon Glass
For some series with lots of changes it is annoying that duplicate change log items are not caught. It is also helpful sometimes to sort the change logs. Add a Series-process-log tag to enable this, which can be placed in a commit to control this. The change to the Cc: line is to fix a checkpatch warning. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
2013-04-04patman: Minor help message/README fixesSimon Glass
A few of the help messages are not quite right, and there is a typo in the README. Fix these. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
2013-04-04patman: Add Cover-letter-cc tag to Cc cover letter to peopleSimon Glass
The cover letter is sent to everyone who is on the Cc list for any of the patches in the series. Sometimes it is useful to send just the cover letter to additional people, so that they are aware of the series, but don't need to wade through all the individual patches. Add a new Cover-letter-cc tag for this purpose. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
2013-04-04patman: Make "Reviewed-by" an important tagDoug Anderson
Although "Reviewed-by:" is a tag that gerrit adds, it's also a tag used by upstream. Stripping it is undesirable. In fact, we should treat it as important. Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2013-01-31patman: Add the concept of multiple projectsDoug Anderson
There are cases that we want to support different settings (or maybe even different aliases) for different projects. Add support for this by: * Adding detection for two big projects: U-Boot and Linux. * Adding default settings for Linux (U-Boot is already good with the standard patman defaults). * Extend the new "settings" feature in .patman to specify per-project settings. Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2013-01-31patman: Add support for settings in .patmanDoug Anderson
This patch adds support for a [settings] section in the .patman file. In this section you can add settings that will affect the default values for command-line options. Support is added in a generic way such that any setting can be updated by just referring to the "dest" of the option that is passed to the option parser. At the moment options that would make sense to put in settings are "ignore_errors", "process_tags", and "verbose". You could override them like: [settings] ignore_errors: True process_tags: False verbose: True The settings functionality is also used in a future change which adds support for per-project settings. Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
2013-01-31patman: Add a call to get_maintainer.pl if it existsDoug Anderson
For Linux the best way to figure out where to send a patch is with the "get_maintainer.pl" script. Add support for calling it from patman. Support is added unconditionally for "scripts/get_maintainer.pl" in case it is helpful for any other projects. Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
2013-01-31patman: Add all CC addresses to the cover letterDoug Anderson
If we're sending a cover letter make sure to CC everyone that we're CCing on each of the individual patches. Signed-off-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
2012-10-15patman: Support Series-name tag to name a seriesSimon Glass
Sometimes it is possible to forget the name of the branch you used to generate an upstream series. To assist with this, add an optional patman does not use this. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2012-06-19patman: Handle creation of patman config fileVikram Narayanan
patman shouts when it couldn't find a $(HOME)/.patman file. Handle it in a sane way by creating a new one for the user. It looks for a user.name and user.email in the global .gitconfig file, waits for the user input if it can't find there. Update the same in the README Signed-off-by: Vikram Narayanan <vikram186@gmail.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Cc: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
2012-06-19patman: Change the location of patman config fileVikram Narayanan
Move the config file from ~/.config/patman to ~/.patman as it is more appropriate to have it there. Update the same in the README. Signed-off-by: Vikram Narayanan <vikram186@gmail.com> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Cc: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2012-04-30patman: Change the location of patman pathVikram Narayanan
Fix the location of patman path in README Signed-off-by: Vikram Narayanan <vikram186@gmail.com> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2012-04-30patman: Fix a typo errorVikram Narayanan
Signed-off-by: Vikram Narayanan <vikram186@gmail.com> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2012-04-21Prepare v2012.04Wolfgang Denk
Also tiny style cleanup to tools/patman/README Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
2012-04-21Add 'patman' patch generation, checking and submission scriptSimon Glass
What is this? ============= This tool is a Python script which: - Creates patch directly from your branch - Cleans them up by removing unwanted tags - Inserts a cover letter with change lists - Runs the patches through checkpatch.pl and its own checks - Optionally emails them out to selected people It is intended to automate patch creation and make it a less error-prone process. It is useful for U-Boot and Linux work so far, since it uses the checkpatch.pl script. It is configured almost entirely by tags it finds in your commits. This means that you can work on a number of different branches at once, and keep the settings with each branch rather than having to git format-patch, git send-email, etc. with the correct parameters each time. So for example if you put: in one of your commits, the series will be sent there. See the README file for full details. END Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>