[U-Boot] IXP42x patch series version 3

[Michael Schwingen]

Am 02/14/2011 01:00 PM, schrieb Albert ARIBAUD:
> Le 14/02/2011 00:38, Michael Schwingen a écrit :
>> Am 02/13/2011 11:03 PM, schrieb Wolfgang Denk:
>>> Dear Graeme Russ,
>>>
>>> In message<AANLkTikxv+ATsYAP5ismLo5pj=TrFV_oQNk=8qVh1tDH at mail.gmail.com>  you wrote:
>>>> For multi-patch series, you only need to put the revision history in the
>>>> [00/nn] file - No need to individually annotate each and every patch
>>> This is *wrong*.
>>>
>>> See the Note at bullet 2 at
>>> http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/U-Boot/Patches#Sending_updated_patch_versions
> (I plead guilty, then. I, too, did put patchset history only in the 
> summary post, and never commented others who did it too)
>
>> Do you have any advise *how* to do that using git?
>>
>> Any pointer is fine, I can RTFM if I know where to start.
> Git itself won't give you a way to do this. What I do is:
>
> - when I create a V2 patchset I edit the patch messages manually to add 
> history (in the summary so far, I'll fix this for future patchsets) and 
> keep the patch messages around;
>
> - when I create a V3-or-later patchset, I copy-paste the history from 
> the previous set then add the new history entry.
>
> Being a creature of habit, I am used to launching two instances of nedit 
> with the V(n-1) and V(n) patch sets for this.
So in my case, I would need 2*17 editor instances (or more likely 17
sessions with 2 editor instances each), for each patch version. That add
quite a lot of work just to prepare otherwise working patches for patchwork.

I will see when I find time to re-do the patch series that way, however,
I need to say that maintaining patches out-of-tree seems less work than
getting the patches into mainline using this procedure.

cu
Michael