Submitting a selftest patch

Siddh Raman Pant sanganaka at siddh.me
Wed May 8 12:35:18 EDT 2024


On Wed, 08 May 2024 08:08:20 +0530 Camila Alvarez  wrote:
> I’ve been discussing a bug with one of the maintainers of a subsystem.
> At one point I was asked to craft a selftest for the issue. 
>  
> My question is: how do I send the patch with the selftest? Do I need
> to reference the email where the selftest request was made? Or
> should I just send it as an independent patch? 

Both are fine. git send-email has in-reply-to option so you can just
reply to the thread. Make sure to CC the relevant mailing lists and
people.

Thanks,
Siddh



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