Patch tagging/classification

[Yann E. MORIN]

Damien, All,

On 2016-02-08 15:02 +0000, Damien Lespiau spake thusly:
[--SNIP--]
> I think I'd like to see a tool to wrap git
> send-email, that would ensure a more deterministic way of sending
> patches and updates after review see:
> 
>   https://github.com/dlespiau/patchwork/issues/81

Not sure that would fit your needs (at least not as described in the PR
you linked above), but I have a git wrapper around send-email +
request-pull:

    https://github.com/yann-morin-1998/git-wrappers/blob/master/git-send-pull-request

It's basically:

    git format-patch BASE..HEAD
    git request-pull BASE..HEAD >msg
    # some tweaking of msg
    ${EDITOR} msg
    git send-email msg *.patch

with a little bit of sugar: options to control who is in to, cc, bcc,
whether cover-letter is to-ed, cc-ed or bcc-ed to patch authors, whether
to hint patchwork to ignore cover-letter and/or patches, set the version
of the series, add a '[tag]' suffix (e.g. RFC) and so on...

Mails would be sent as (N patches, version M, RFC suffix):

    [PATCH 0/N vM RFC] bla bla bla (branch BRANCH-NAME)
    +- [PATCH 1/N vM RFC] bla bla foo
    +- [PATCH 2/N vM RFC] bla bla bar
    ...

>From your exposed needs, I can see '--in-reply-to' to be missing, but
that can probably be added quite easily. I'm not sure what you call a
'series id', though, but if you refer to a branch name, it's already
there.

Comments most welcome, of course. ;-)

BTW, there's also git-pwc in that repository, a simple dialog-based
pwclient-based frontend to select and apply patches:

    https://github.com/yann-morin-1998/git-wrappers/blob/master/git-pwc

(Warning: written for my personal use, might be rough on the edges, won't
be big and professional like... you know the tune! ;-) ).

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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