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-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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commit. Most can only appear once in the whole series.
Series-to: email / alias
- Email address / alias to send patch series to (you can add this
- multiple times)
+ Email address / alias to send patch series to (you can add this
+ multiple times)
Series-cc: email / alias, ...
- Email address / alias to Cc patch series to (you can add this
- multiple times)
+ Email address / alias to Cc patch series to (you can add this
+ multiple times)
Series-version: n
- Sets the version number of this patch series
+ Sets the version number of this patch series
Series-prefix: prefix
- Sets the subject prefix. Normally empty but it can be RFC for
- RFC patches, or RESEND if you are being ignored.
+ Sets the subject prefix. Normally empty but it can be RFC for
+ RFC patches, or RESEND if you are being ignored.
Cover-letter:
This is the patch set title
blah blah
more blah blah
END
- Sets the cover letter contents for the series. The first line
- will become the subject of the cover letter
+ Sets the cover letter contents for the series. The first line
+ will become the subject of the cover letter
Series-notes:
blah blah
blah blah
more blah blah
END
- Sets some notes for the patch series, which you don't want in
- the commit messages, but do want to send, The notes are joined
- together and put after the cover letter. Can appear multiple
- times.
+ Sets some notes for the patch series, which you don't want in
+ the commit messages, but do want to send, The notes are joined
+ together and put after the cover letter. Can appear multiple
+ times.
Signed-off-by: Their Name <email>
- A sign-off is added automatically to your patches (this is
- probably a bug). If you put this tag in your patches, it will
- override the default signoff that patman automatically adds.
+ A sign-off is added automatically to your patches (this is
+ probably a bug). If you put this tag in your patches, it will
+ override the default signoff that patman automatically adds.
Tested-by: Their Name <email>
Acked-by: Their Name <email>
- These indicate that someone has acked or tested your patch.
- When you get this reply on the mailing list, you can add this
- tag to the relevant commit and the script will include it when
- you send out the next version. If 'Tested-by:' is set to
- yourself, it will be removed. No one will believe you.
+ These indicate that someone has acked or tested your patch.
+ When you get this reply on the mailing list, you can add this
+ tag to the relevant commit and the script will include it when
+ you send out the next version. If 'Tested-by:' is set to
+ yourself, it will be removed. No one will believe you.
Series-changes: n
- Guinea pig moved into its cage
- Other changes ending with a blank line
<blank line>
- This can appear in any commit. It lists the changes for a
- particular version n of that commit. The change list is
- created based on this information. Each commit gets its own
- change list and also the whole thing is repeated in the cover
- letter (where duplicate change lines are merged).
+ This can appear in any commit. It lists the changes for a
+ particular version n of that commit. The change list is
+ created based on this information. Each commit gets its own
+ change list and also the whole thing is repeated in the cover
+ letter (where duplicate change lines are merged).
- By adding your change lists into your commits it is easier to
- keep track of what happened. When you amend a commit, remember
- to update the log there and then, knowing that the script will
- do the rest.
+ By adding your change lists into your commits it is easier to
+ keep track of what happened. When you amend a commit, remember
+ to update the log there and then, knowing that the script will
+ do the rest.
Cc: Their Name <email>
- This copies a single patch to another email address.
+ This copies a single patch to another email address.
Various other tags are silently removed, like these Chrome OS and
Gerrit tags:
>>>>
commit 10212537b85ff9b6e09c82045127522c0f0db981
Author: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
-Date: Mon Nov 7 23:18:44 2011 -0500
+Date: Mon Nov 7 23:18:44 2011 -0500
x86: arm: add a git mailrc file for maintainers
Also, the patch on the list that you were waiting for has been merged,
so you can drop your wip commit. So you resync with upstream:
- git fetch origin (or whatever upstream is called)
+ git fetch origin (or whatever upstream is called)
git rebase origin/master
and use git rebase -i to edit the commits, dropping the wip one. You add