From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97F1B1F855 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2016 19:47:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754862AbcHATrQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2016 15:47:16 -0400 Received: from slow1-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.178.86]:47069 "EHLO slow1-d.mail.gandi.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751928AbcHATrO (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2016 15:47:14 -0400 Received: from relay4-d.mail.gandi.net (relay4-d.mail.gandi.net [217.70.183.196]) by slow1-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7F9847FB13; Mon, 1 Aug 2016 20:38:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mfilter47-d.gandi.net (mfilter47-d.gandi.net [217.70.178.178]) by relay4-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41FAF1720A5; Mon, 1 Aug 2016 20:37:56 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mfilter47-d.gandi.net Received: from relay4-d.mail.gandi.net ([IPv6:::ffff:217.70.183.196]) by mfilter47-d.gandi.net (mfilter47-d.gandi.net [::ffff:10.0.15.180]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 2M-daNVHjHSB; Mon, 1 Aug 2016 20:37:54 +0200 (CEST) X-Originating-IP: 50.39.163.18 Received: from x (50-39-163-18.bvtn.or.frontiernet.net [50.39.163.18]) (Authenticated sender: josh@joshtriplett.org) by relay4-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DBB0B1720A9; Mon, 1 Aug 2016 20:37:52 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 11:37:50 -0700 From: Josh Triplett To: Stephen Warren Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Simon Glass Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-series: track changes to a patch series over time Message-ID: <20160801183750.ivwue4mxm5ilgzqz@x> References: <20160729064055.GB25331@x> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.2-neo (2016-07-23) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 09:14:54AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote: > On 07/29/2016 12:40 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: > > I'd like to announce a project I've been working on for a while: > > > > git-series provides a tool for managing patch series with git, tracking > > the "history of history". git series tracks changes to the patch series > > over time, including rebases and other non-fast-forwarding changes. git > > series also tracks a cover letter for the patch series, formats the > > series for email, and prepares pull requests. > > Just as an FYI, I wouldn't be surprised if there's some overlap, or > potential for merging of tools, between this tool and the "patman" tool > that's part of the U-Boot source tree: > > http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=tools/patman/README;h=e36857dedea1d0dbafa41732aaf9bf0988d63f38;hb=HEAD Interesting tool; thanks for the link. As far as I can tell from that documentation, patman doesn't track old versions of a patch series; you rebase to modify patches or change patman tags (embedded in commit messages), and nothing preserves the previous version. And it tracks the cover letter and similar in one of the commit messages in the series, so previous versions of that don't get saved either. If you wanted to track the history of your changes, you'd have to use branch names or similar. In addition, tracking metadata in commit messages only works with a patches-by-mail workflow where the messages get processed when generating patches; that doesn't work for please-pull workflows. patman does have quite a few interesting ideas, though. git-series needs some way of handling To/Cc addresses for patches and the cover letter (beyond just scripts/get_maintainer.pl), and more automatic handling of series versioning (v2, v3, ...) and associated series changelogs. Suggestions welcome. - Josh Triplett