On May 11, 2015, at 7:11 PM, Peter Crosthwaite wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Programmingkid > <programmingk...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This patch series adds a machine menu to the Macintosh interface. >> Patch 1/3 adds the machine menu with pause and resume menu items. >> Patch 2/3 adds menu items for all devices that are available. >> Patch 3/3 adds Reset and Power Down menu items. >> > > Hi, > > Please try using git format-patch and send-email for all of the patch > mails as well as the cover letter. The cover letter is generated by > passing the --cover-letter switch to git format-patch. You then edit > 0000-cover-letter file and send the cover letter with the rest of the > mails. > > You can optionally use patches utility to test your series for > applicability. Currently: > > [pcrost@xsjsorenbubuntu patches]$ patches list 'from:"Programmingkid" > status:broken' > Message-id: 01a0dc97-bf06-40e4-adeb-7bd900ae9...@gmail.com > From: Programmingkid <programmingk...@gmail.com> > Date: 2015-05-11 > [3/3] ui/cocoa.m: Add Reset and Power Down menu items to Machine menu > > Message-id: 810c0446-745b-4f71-a769-3f55b58ec...@gmail.com > From: Programmingkid <programmingk...@gmail.com> > Date: 2015-05-11 > [2/3] ui/cocoa.m: Adds device menu items to Machine menu > > Message-id: a98ccfbb-cde3-409b-a32e-a45e9cf02...@gmail.com > From: Programmingkid <programmingk...@gmail.com> > Date: 2015-05-11 > [1/3] ui/cocoa.m: adds Machine menu with pause and resume menu items > > Message-id: 89d394c3-5602-47f7-99bb-ac0f27fda...@gmail.com > From: Programmingkid <programmingk...@gmail.com> > Date: 2015-05-11 > [0/3] ui/cocoa.m: Add Machine menu > > Which indicates that this series is broken for some reason. I think > it's because of your ad-hoc cover. > > The mail id are gmail as well as usually for a git send-email they are > git-send-email-XXXXX. Did you paste the patches into a mail client > manually? > > Using git send-email via gmail is fairly easy to setup. > > Anyways, patches is available here: > > https://github.com/aliguori/patches > > The fetch command you want to use is: > > ./patches fetch http://vmsplice.net/~patches/patches.json > > patches list 'from:"Programmingkid" not status:broken' > > Should show the series once it's good. Note git may correct the > authorships based on your real name so do the search both ways to see > what's up. > > I recently had mail problems of my own and found this helpful as a > final "did I get it right" sanity check). > > Regards, > Peter
This sounds like such a hassle. All that matters to me is the patches be accepted. Maybe using a patch series was not the right thing for me to do. Thank you very much for taking the time to give me all this information.
