On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 1:11 AM, Zac Storer <zac.3.14159@gmail.com> wrote:

What is the best way to send multiple related patches?

for example:

A series of patches that fix indentation issues within a single src file.

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Well the best way to send related patches is using git IMHO. For each change that you do, you can commit to a branch in your git tree. Then you can let git generate the patches for you and finally use git-send-email to send the patch series. For example: Create a local branch for a tree: $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfr/linux-next.git $ cd linux-next $ git checkout -b devel origin/master Do some change and commit: $ emacs drivers/staging/pohmelfs/dir.c $ git add drivers/staging/pohmelfs/dir.c $ git commit -m "Staging: pohmelfs/dir.c: Fix something" Do another change and commit: $ emacs drivers/staging/pohmelfs/dir.c $ git commit -m "Staging: pohmelfs/dir.c: Fix another thing" Generate your patchset with your last two commits $ git format-patch -s -2 This will create one file for each patch generated. So to send your patchset you can use the command: $ git send-email --compose --to='Zac Storer <zac.3.14159@gmail.com>' --cc='kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org' *.patch The command will extract the commit message and use it as the mail subject, with the --compose flag you can create a prelude mail explaining your patchset. So this command will create 3 mails with these subjects [PATCH 0/2] Staging: pohmelfs/dir.c: Fixes [PATCH 1/2] Staging: pohmelfs/dir.c: Fix something [PATCH 2/2] Staging: pohmelfs/dir.c: Fix another thing Also you can be sure that your email client didn't wrap lines and the message era encoded in ASCII. Remember always to use scripts/checkpatch.pl to check your patches and scripts/get_maintainer.pl to check who are the developers that have to be cc'ed. Hope it helps, -- Javier Martínez Canillas (+34) 682 39 81 69 PhD Student in High Performance Computing Computer Architecture and Operating System Department (CAOS) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain