Hi Randy, On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 15:01:36 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > Search on lore.kernel.org (at least when searching by patchid, commitid) > looks for a "^diff" line before the ---/+++ lines in a patch. > > Can anyone suggest a way to cause or create that line?
As far as I know, quilt can't currently do this. What it can do is print an Index header which looks like this: Index: b/arch/ia64/mm/numa.c =================================================================== If lore.kernel.org is happy with that, then all you need to do is ensure that you did not set QUILT_NO_DIFF_INDEX in ~/.quilrc or /etc/quilt.quiltrc. > So instead of > > --- a/arch/ia64/mm/numa.c > +++ b/arch/ia64/mm/numa.c > > at the beginning of a file's patch, it would be 3 lines: > (a la git but without the "--git") > > > diff a/arch/ia64/mm/numa.c b/arch/ia64/mm/numa.c > --- a/arch/ia64/mm/numa.c > +++ b/arch/ia64/mm/numa.c If there any tool other than git which inserts such lines before the actual unified diff? GNU diff does not, unless I missed an option. > AFAICT quilt has no problem reading patches like this, since > whenever I get a (git) patch from other people to test, I apply > it with quilt and then rebuild the kernel. Correct, quilt will ignore the line and be happy with it (just like GNU patch). It shouldn't be too hard to add an option to quilt to optionally generate that line. However users will be free to use that option or not, so it doesn't really solve the problem at large (we can search for your patches, but not random quilt user patches). Shouldn't lore.kernel.org be improved to recognize patches without that line instead? -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list Quilt-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
