Hi Randy, > > If anyone thinks anything else needs to be fixed before the next > > release, please speak up. > > I'd like to see a bit more support for the Linux kernel > canonical patch format. It's documented in > linux/Documentation/SubmittingPatches (line 304 in 2.6.15-rc7). > > Basically this means (at least) keeping lines that contain > only "---" as a separator line before any diffstat output > or at the end of the "header". It could (optionally ?) > additionally cause quilt to add From: and Signed-off-by: > template lines to the header.
There have been proposals for header template support in the past, but they were not merged, probably due to a lack of time to review them and actually test and merge the code. Or maybe there was something wrong with them, I don't remember. Digging up the list archives may provide a couple patches for you to play with, and if any seems to work good enough for you, feel free to review it, polish it and submit it for inclusion again. > A patch that keeps "---" lines in 'quilt refresh' is here: > > http://developer.osdl.org/chrisw/quilt/quilt-refresh-linux-kernel-style.patch > > I don't know who wrote it. Well, I did :) And just as unsurprisingly, it is already merged in CVS: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Tue Oct 4 18:43:42 CEST 2005 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - scripts/patchfns.in: Prevent patch_header and patch_body from mistakenly considering "---" alone on its header line as the beginning of the patch body. ------------------------------------------------------------------- This is one of the many reasons why I'd like to see the CVS version of quilt released as a new numbered version soon. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
