Re: [Qemu-devel] a newbie question: code patches

[cheetah]

Sounds great. Thanks.

I am a newbie and still confusing on how to do it. Please excuse my ignorance. 

If I forked a my own branch on qemu.git and develop against it.

For instance I change qcow2.c which depends on some functions in block.c which are different from qemu-kvm.git because qemu-kvm.git has an old version of block.c

In this case I need to generate a patch for both qcow2.c and block.c by diff with the qemu-kvm.git's version. This is done manually. And if more files are involved, it becomes really painful. 

Is there any better way to generate a patch for qemu-kvm.git easily? 

Peter

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:

On 08/05/2011 11:04 AM, cheetah wrote:

Thanks for the quickly reply.

I am going to change/add the block driver and some image format code. If
I develop against the qemu.git, can I easily generate a patch to apply
to qemu-kvm.git too?

Yes, or vice versa too.  You can develop against qemu-kvm.git if that's what you use, and retest with qemu.git before submitting.

Paolo