From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>,
Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>,
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] MyFirstContribution: add "Anatomy of a Patch Series" section
Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 15:09:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq4k1viuwu.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e766e57-3b6c-494e-84b6-406a91ccf6ea@gmail.com> (Philippe Blain's message of "Wed, 11 May 2022 17:48:29 -0400")
Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> writes:
>> Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 01:47:30AM +0000, Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget wrote:
>>>> +We can note a few things:
>>>> +
>>>> +- Each commit is sent as a separate email, with the commit message title as
>>>> + subject, prefixed with "[PATCH _i_/_n_]" for the _i_-th commit of an
>>>> + _n_-commit series.
>>>> +- Each patch is sent as a reply to an introductory email called the _cover
>>>> + letter_ of the series, prefixed "[PATCH 0/_n_]".
>>>> +- Subsequent iterations of the patch series are labelled "[PATCH v2]", "[PATCH
>>>> + v3]", etc. and sent with a new cover letter, itself a reply to the cover
>>>> + letter of the previous iteration (more on that below).
>>>> +
>>>> +At this point the tutorial diverges, in order to demonstrate two
>>>> different methods of formatting your patchset and getting it reviewed.
>>>>
>>>
>>> In case of single-patch series submissions, the anatomy is simple: first
>>> the email subject is commit message title prefixed with "[PATCH]" or
>>> "[PATCH v_n_]" (in case of n-th iteration), then commit message and the
>>> actual diff.
>>
>> Correct. There is no single-patch topic in the summary view shown
>> in the document, so it does not belong to the above "We can note a
>> few things" list. But I agree that there should be a mention for a
>> single-patch topic somewhere in this document, both for a patch and
>> (the usual lack of) cover-letter for such a topic.
>>
>> The sample topic this tutorial uses is a multi-patch series and
>> everything in the document revolves around handing a multi-patch
>> series, so finding a good place to fit it may be a bit tricky,
>> though.
>
> There is already a small section on single-patch topics, at the end of
> the 'git send-email' section [1]. And I add a link to it in the GGG
> section in patch 5/5.
>
> [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/MyFirstContribution#single-patch
Yup, I was wondering if there is an easy way to move it to this
section, which imparts a knowledge common across different method of
patch submission. If we can do so somewhere nearby, it would be
ideal. Perhaps in "We can note a few things" list or as a side note
immediately after the list, we can add
- A single-patch topic is sent with "[PATCH]", "[PATCH v2]",
etc. without _i_/_n_ numbering (in the above thread overview,
no single-patch topic appears, though).
Or we can redo the lore screenshot to include such a topic, perhaps,
then we can lose the comment in the parentheses.
That reminds me of one small bug in your patch, where it says
>>>> +- Subsequent iterations of the patch series are labelled "[PATCH v2]", "[PATCH
>>>> + v3]", etc. and sent with a new cover letter, itself a reply to the cover
>>>> + letter of the previous iteration (more on that below).
Subsequent interations of the patches and the cover letter use
"PATCH v2", "PATCH v3", etc. in place of "PATCH". "[PATCH v2
1/3]" would be the first of three patches in the second
iteration, for example, and replies to "[PATCH v2 0/3]" which is
the cover letter for the iteration, which in turn replies to the
cover letter of the first iteration.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-11 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-27 19:04 [PATCH 0/3] Improve MyFirstContribution's GitGitGadget section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-04-27 19:04 ` [PATCH 1/3] MyFirstContribution: move cover letter description to a separate file Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-04-27 21:15 ` Eric Sunshine
2022-04-27 22:02 ` Philippe Blain
2022-04-27 21:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-28 18:16 ` Philippe Blain
2022-04-27 19:04 ` [PATCH 2/3] MyFirstContribution: also explain cover letter in GitGitGadget section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-04-27 20:43 ` Victoria Dye
2022-04-28 18:21 ` Philippe Blain
2022-04-29 16:27 ` Victoria Dye
2022-05-10 23:45 ` Philippe Blain
2022-04-27 19:04 ` [PATCH 3/3] MyFirstContribution: drop PR description for GGG single-patch contributions Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-04-27 21:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-28 18:25 ` Philippe Blain
2022-04-28 19:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-11 1:47 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Improve MyFirstContribution's GitGitGadget section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-11 1:47 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] MyFirstContribution: add "Anatomy of a Patch Series" section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-11 6:20 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2022-05-11 21:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-11 21:48 ` Philippe Blain
2022-05-11 22:09 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2022-05-12 23:00 ` Philippe Blain
2022-05-12 12:11 ` Philip Oakley
2022-05-12 22:53 ` Philippe Blain
2022-05-11 1:47 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] MyFirstContribution: add standalone section on cover letter Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-11 10:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-11 21:49 ` Philippe Blain
2022-05-11 1:47 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] MyFirstContribution: reference "The cover letter" in "Preparing Email" Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-11 1:47 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] MyFirstContribution: reference "The cover letter" in GitGitGadget section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-11 1:47 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] MyFirstContribution: drop PR description for GGG single-patch contributions Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-11 10:11 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Improve MyFirstContribution's GitGitGadget section Junio C Hamano
2022-05-11 17:45 ` Victoria Dye
2022-05-12 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 " Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-12 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] MyFirstContribution: add "Anatomy of a Patch Series" section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-12 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] MyFirstContribution: add standalone section on cover letter Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-12 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] MyFirstContribution: reference "The cover letter" in "Preparing Email" Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-12 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] MyFirstContribution: reference "The cover letter" in GitGitGadget section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-12 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] MyFirstContribution: drop PR description for GGG single-patch contributions Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-19 21:49 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] Improve MyFirstContribution's GitGitGadget section Junio C Hamano
2022-05-21 16:17 ` Philippe Blain
2022-05-22 1:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-24 12:29 ` Philippe Blain
2022-05-24 19:06 ` Junio C Hamano
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