u-boot.git/tools/patman/README, branch v2013.07

patman: README documentation nits (unit test)

2013-07-15T21:06:09Z

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 Acked-by: Simon Glass

patman: Add Series-process-log tag to sort/uniq change logs

2013-04-08T22:21:22Z

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 Reviewed-by: Doug Anderson

patman: Minor help message/README fixes

2013-04-04T21:04:35Z

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 Reviewed-by: Doug Anderson

patman: Add Cover-letter-cc tag to Cc cover letter to people

2013-04-04T21:04:34Z

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 Reviewed-by: Doug Anderson

patman: Make "Reviewed-by" an important tag

2013-04-04T21:04:34Z

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 Reviewed-by: Otavio Salvador Acked-by: Simon Glass

patman: Add the concept of multiple projects

2013-01-31T23:23:40Z

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 Acked-by: Simon Glass

patman: Add support for settings in .patman

2013-01-31T23:23:40Z

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

patman: Add a call to get_maintainer.pl if it exists

2013-01-31T23:23:39Z

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

patman: Add all CC addresses to the cover letter

2013-01-31T23:23:39Z

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

patman: Support Series-name tag to name a series

2012-10-15T18:54:03Z

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