Re: [Announce] submitGit for patch submission (was "Diffing submodule does not yield complete logs")

[Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On 2015-05-22 19:14, Philip Oakley wrote:
> From: "Johannes Schindelin" <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

>> On 2015-05-22 11:42, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>
>>> On 2015-05-22 10:33, Roberto Tyley wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday, 19 May 2015, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Robert Dailey
>>>>> <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> > How do you send your patches inline?
>>>> [snip]
>>>>> This workflow discussion was a topic at the GitMerge2015 conference,
>>>>> and there are essentially 2 groups, those who know how to send email
>>>>> and those who complain about it. A solution was agreed on by nearly all
>>>>> of the contributors. It would be awesome to have a git-to-email proxy,
>>>>> such that you could do a git push <proxy> master:refs/for/mailinglist
>>>>> and this proxy would convert the push into sending patch series to the
>>>>> mailing list. It could even convert the following discussion back into
>>>>> comments (on Github?) but as a first step we'd want to try out a one
>>>>> way proxy.
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately nobody stepped up to actually do the work, yet :(
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello, I'm stepping up to do that work :) Or at least, I'm implementing a
>>>> one-way GitHub PR -> Mailing list tool, called submitGit:
>>>>
>>>> https://submitgit.herokuapp.com/
>>>
>>> Wow!!!
>>>
>>> I will make sure to test it with a couple of patches I want to submit anyway.
>>
>> I just tried this with https://github.com/git/git/pull/139 and would like to tell you about two wishes I had immediately:
>>
>> - If the author of a patch I am submitting is not myself, could submitGit maybe add that `From: ` line at the top of the mail?
>> - The patch series is sent without a cover letter, but it would be *really* great if a path series consisting of more than one patch could have the initial comment of the Pull Request as a cover letter, with the link to the original Pull Request at the bottom? This would also be the mail to use in the "In-reply-yo" header instead of the first patch.
>>
>> Thanks so much!
>> Dscho
> 
> 
> A separate request would be to be able to use PRs that are for forks
> of git/git, such as msysgit etc. (i.e. have a common --root), which
> would help in the upstreaming of some changes.
> 
> 
> I ask because I just logged in and my preparatory PR318
> (https://github.com/msysgit/git/pull/318) for rejuvenating the
> msvc-build system wasn't listed, probably because of the forking.

You can easily change what upstream your PR is intended for. For example, I made my PR from my own Git fork (which is based on msysgit/git) relative to git/git by entering the URL:

https://github.com/git/git/compare/next...dscho:non-win-fixes?expand=true

So there is no real need for anything extra: the only git.git project that requires emails (that I am aware of) for the submission process is git/git.

Ciao,
Dscho