[RFC] Patchsets in a single mail? [Re: [PATCH 01/55] Add simple subunit runner outputting subunit v1.]

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Feb 13 14:57:20 MST 2015


On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 09:24:28PM +0100, Michael Adam wrote:
> 
> So I would really really appreciate if people send
> patchsets in a single mail. There are (at least)
> two ways to do that:
> 
> 1) Do git format-patch HASH1^..HASH2
>    and attach all patch files produced to
>    a mail with a meaningful intro to the patchset.
> 
> 2) Do git format-patch --stdout HASH1^..HASH2 > my.patches
>    and attach my.patches to a mail with a meaningful
>    intro to the patchset.
> 
> Of these I greatly favour number 2, since for variant 1
> you again have the problem of saving and applying 55 single
> patch files, so let's forget about #1.

+1 from me. I even find David's split out patchsets a pain
to deal with.

Why people send multi-mail patchsets I can't understand :-(.


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