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Message-ID: <20090801171815.GA15259@kroah.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 10:18:15 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc: linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tty tree change for linux-next
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 05:22:45PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 16:41:04 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:39:05 -0700 Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > If there are any problems with the trees, please let me know.
> >
> > Will do.
>
> Just a small (but important) thing. All the tty series patches look like this:
>
> <summary>
>
> From: <author>
>
> <message>
> .
> .
>
>
> When I import these, they will all look like they are authored by you and
> use the file name as the one line summary :-( . "Git quilt-import"
> expects more mail-like patches like:
>
> From: <author>
> Subject: <summary>
>
> ..
>
> So if there is some easy transform you could do on these, it would be
> good. (There is only one patch that has "Subject:" at the start of the
> <summary>.) (Subject: followed by From: is ok as well, so 'prepend
> "Subject: " to first line and remove following blank line' would probably
> get you very close.)
Ok, that's not good at all, I just took the patches straight from Alan.
I'll edit them up this weekend to work better (i.e. in the format that
all of my other patches are in, pseudo-mbox headers, which both quilt
and git seem to like.)
Thanks for letting me know,
greg k-h
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