Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Assorted improvements salvaged from an earlier series

[Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>]

On 2024-03-25 21:49, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 4:41 PM Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org> 
> wrote:
>> On 2024-03-25 21:39, Eric Sunshine wrote:
>> > Prose description of the changes between versions is very much welcome
>> > by reviewers, but please also include a range-diff[1] or interdiff[2]
>> > when preparing a reroll.
>> 
>> Ah, sorry, I didn't forget about that, but I just intended to start
>> providing range-diffs for future patches.  These were more like new
>> versions of old patches.
> 
> The range-diff is particularly valuable exactly for this case (new
> versions of old patches) since it is a "diff" between the old patches
> and the new patches. Thus, it provides reviewers with a precise
> summary of what changed between, say, v2 and v3 of a series, and
> manifests as a concrete representation of what your prose explanation
> describes.

I see, and I do understand the purpose of range-diffs:  they make
reviewing new patch versions significantly easier, by relieving the
reviewers from the need to track down what has been changed in the
current patch version.