Re: recommendation for patch maintenance

2012-12-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
Manlio Perillo manlio.peri...@gmail.com writes: I would like to have advices about some possible workflows to use when maintaining a patch, that can evolve over the time (fixing bugs, and applying advices from reviewers). In my case I have a single commit to maintain. The workflow I use

Re: recommendation for patch maintenance

2012-12-21 Thread Manlio Perillo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 21/12/2012 18:01, Junio C Hamano ha scritto: Manlio Perillo manlio.peri...@gmail.com writes: I would like to have advices about some possible workflows to use when maintaining a patch, that can evolve over the time (fixing bugs, and applying

Re: recommendation for patch maintenance

2012-12-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
Manlio Perillo manlio.peri...@gmail.com writes: I lose the history of all the changes I have made to produce the final version of a patch. Since for every new version of a patch I do a commit --amend, I can not see, as an example, the changes I have made between x and y versions of a patch.

Re: recommendation for patch maintenance

2012-12-21 Thread Manlio Perillo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 21/12/2012 19:17, Junio C Hamano ha scritto: [...] Of course you can plan ahead (this is what I usually do when working on a series that is not how about this throw-away patch I send to this list all the time) and name the topic topic-v1, fork

Re: recommendation for patch maintenance

2012-12-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Manlio Perillo manlio.peri...@gmail.com wrote: By the way, I would also like to be able to set the default value for the --output option in config file; something like: [format] output = +mp/$(git symbolic-ref --short HEAD) where the string will be