How to automate checkpatch && get_maintainers && git send-email of commits range?

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 06:24:15PM +0300, Andrey Utkin wrote:
> 2014-07-18 17:46 GMT+03:00 Benoit Taine <benoit.taine at lip6.fr>:
> > On 18/07/2014 17:38, Andrey Utkin wrote:
> >> Is there script for automated checkpatch.pl && get_maintainers.pl &&
> >> git send-email for range of commits? I see none. Would it be welcome
> >> to submit such one to kernel tree?
> 
> > You can use `splitpatch` to split a patch into multiple mails with the
> > correct mailing list and maintainers. It generates a script to
> > chain-send these emails using `cocci-send-email` (a modified version of
> > `git-send-email`).
> >
> > Both are available in the `tools/` directory of coccinelle's
> > distribution <http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/>.
> 
> Thank you for this info, but it doesn't match exactly what i seek for.
> I'd like to automate checking and sending exactly of range of git
> commits, or of a set of files generated by git-format-patch.
> I also cannot use cocci-send-email because it doesn't pick To: and Cc:
> lines which i inject into git-format-patch-formatted files. And i
> don't know tools to format the patches in "The original format used by
> Greg Kroah-Hartman's send_lots_of_email.pl script".
> My target should be to
> - check all patches,
> - find set of email addresses to Cc for each patch,
> - send them at once to correct sets of addresses, entering SMTP
> password only once if it is not stored in git-config.

git send-email can do all of the last two things, have you tried it?

As for the format for my old script, I should just delete that logic, I
don't even use it anymore, I just use git send-email.

thanks,m

greg k-h