Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/25] RISC-V Post-merge spec conformance and cleanup

[Eric Blake]

On 03/21/2018 01:27 PM, Michael Clark wrote:

> > for future PULL request, could you please send out all patches again
> > that should be pulled, and not send the cover letter alone? I.e. do a
> > "git format-patch --subject-prefix PULL ..." and then replace the
> > contents of the cover letter with the output of "git request-pull".
>
> No problem. Thanks for the advice. I was grappling with this part of the
> process. This is now very clear and makes complete sense.

You'll notice that some maintainers send a full PULL request the first 
time, but if they have to send a v2, they only include the patches that 
changed from v1.  That's also okay (there's still an email for each 
patch in the series as it eventually got committed, even if it is now 
split across threads; but that is sufficient for someone performing a 
bisect to have an easy email to reply to when reporting a regression 
caused by the final version that ended up getting pulled).  For an 
example of that, see my QAPI v4 request:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-03/msg05160.html

and the regression report against the v1 request (since that particular 
patch did not change between v1 and v4):

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-03/msg03611.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-03/msg05709.html

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