u-boot.git/tools/patman/README, branch v2020.01

patman: Use the Change-Id, version, and prefix in the Message-Id

2019-10-15T14:40:03Z

As per the centithread on ksummit-discuss [1], there are folks who feel that if a Change-Id is present in a developer's local commit that said Change-Id could be interesting to include in upstream posts. Specifically if two commits are posted with the same Change-Id there's a reasonable chance that they are either the same commit or a newer version of the same commit. Specifically this is because that's how gerrit has trained people to work. There is much angst about Change-Id in upstream Linux, but one thing that seems safe and non-controversial is to include the Change-Id as part of the string of crud that makes up a Message-Id. Let's give that a try. In theory (if there is enough adoption) this could help a tool more reliably find various versions of a commit. This actually might work pretty well for U-Boot where (I believe) quite a number of developers use patman, so there could be critical mass (assuming that enough of these people also use a git hook that adds Change-Id to their commits). I was able to find this git hook by searching for "gerrit change id git hook" in my favorite search engine. In theory one could imagine something like this could be integrated into other tools, possibly even git-send-email. Getting it into patman seems like a sane first step, though. NOTE: this patch is being posted using a patman containing this patch, so you should be able to see the Message-Id of this patch and see that it contains my local Change-Id, which ends in 2b9 if you want to check. [1] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2019-August/006739.html Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson

patman: Support using a particular SMTP server

2018-06-23T14:03:43Z

Some environments require providing the '--smtp-server' argument to 'git send-email'. Add support for this. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass

SPDX: Convert all of our single license tags to Linux Kernel style

2018-05-07T13:34:12Z

When U-Boot started using SPDX tags we were among the early adopters and there weren't a lot of other examples to borrow from. So we picked the area of the file that usually had a full license text and replaced it with an appropriate SPDX-License-Identifier: entry. Since then, the Linux Kernel has adopted SPDX tags and they place it as the very first line in a file (except where shebangs are used, then it's second line) and with slightly different comment styles than us. In part due to community overlap, in part due to better tag visibility and in part for other minor reasons, switch over to that style. This commit changes all instances where we have a single declared license in the tag as both the before and after are identical in tag contents. There's also a few places where I found we did not have a tag and have introduced one. Signed-off-by: Tom Rini

patman: add support for omitting bouncing addresses

2017-09-12T03:43:58Z

Add support for reading a list of bouncing addresses from a in-tree file (doc/bounces) and from the ~/.patman config file. These addresses are stripped from the Cc list. Signed-off-by: Chris Packham Reviewed-by: Simon Glass Reviewed-by: Philipp Tomsich >

Use correct spelling of "U-Boot"

2016-02-06T11:00:59Z

Correct spelling of "U-Boot" shall be used in all written text (documentation, comments in source files etc.). Signed-off-by: Bin Meng Reviewed-by: Heiko Schocher Reviewed-by: Simon Glass Reviewed-by: Minkyu Kang

patman: add distutils based installer

2015-07-28T16:36:25Z

To make it easier to use patman on other projects add a distutils style installer. Now patman can be installed with cd u-boot/tools/patman && python setup.py install There are also the usual distutils options for creating source/binary distributions of patman. Tested-by: Simon Glass Signed-off-by: Chris Packham Acked-by: Simon Glass

patman: check git format.subjectprefix setting when generate patches prefix

2015-04-23T18:35:50Z

For the local project, we may specified format.subjectprefix setting. Then the patch will be formated as [Project_prefix][PATCH]. But patman will not check this setting. It will remove the format.subjectprefix. So This patch will let patman check this setting and add it as a project prefix. Signed-off-by: Josh Wu Acked-by: Simon Glass Tested-by: Simon Glass

patman: Explain how to make doc/git-mailrc work

2015-01-30T22:55:30Z

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 Signed-off-by: Simon Glass

patman: Add a -m option to avoid copying the maintainers

2014-09-21T18:03:07Z

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

patman: Avoid duplicate sign-offs

2014-05-09T20:50:45Z

Keep track of all Signed-off-by tags in a commit and silently suppress any duplicates. Signed-off-by: Simon Glass