Hi James, I, personally, use "git format-patch / git send-email" workflow. This is described in [1] and in man pages of these respective commands. Don't mind that it is a checklist for glibc -- gcc uses the same process.
[1] https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Contribution%20checklist HTH, -- Maxim Kuvyrkov https://www.linaro.org > On Feb 21, 2025, at 05:36, James K. Lowden <jklow...@schemamania.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:05:48 +1300 > Maxim Kuvyrkov <maxim.kuvyr...@linaro.org> wrote: > > Hi Maxim, > > Thank you kindly for your helpful reply. Despite running my own mailserver > for 25 years (reluctantly of late because bureaucracy) it seems I still have > things to learn. > >>> In gcc_build master-aarch64, after: >>> | gcc patch https://patchwork.sourceware.org/patch/106762 >> >> Looking at the above patchwork entry, I see that your patch "COBOL >> v3: 3/14 80K bld: config and build machinery" was not detected as >> part of the series [1], which means it was applied without the >> prerequisite 1/14 and 2/14 patches. That's the reason for the >> failure. >> >> [1] https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/gcc/list/?series=44237 >> >> Looking at your whole submission [2], I see that patchwork sees each >> patch as its own series, so our CI will test them individually. I'm, >> actually, surprised that only patch 3/14 fails to build -- the rest >> pass the CI. I would have expected all but 1/14 to fail. > > I did receive a few other reports. Pehaps they were applied in parallel, and > those that happened to be sequenced after 1/14 succeeded. That would make > sense to me. > > The problem would seem to be that I don't know what a patch series is. > > My patches are produced in the simplest way imaginable for someone who uses > git while wearing oven mitts to avoid scorching. I have a script that runs > "git diff" for a set of files, and one to convert that into a mail message. > Then I use sylpheed to send each one in turn. (I could use nmh but I'm less > comfortable with that, for sending. Nothing beats nmh for searching mail.) > > I think you are going to tell me that some git magic will link those together > as a series. Possibly a gcc git script. I haven't tried to connect git to > mail because the git boxes aren't set up to send/receive mail. I've been > told that's unnecessary (and/or easy to rememdy) but so far haven't gotten > over the hump. > > If you would nudge me in the right direction, perhaps I can DTRT. > > Many thanks for your time. > > Regards, _______________________________________________ linaro-toolchain mailing list -- linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org To unsubscribe send an email to linaro-toolchain-le...@lists.linaro.org
