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Re: Patch Tagging Guidelines (aka DEP3)



On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> For elfutils, I have 2 patches that I take from the upstream git
> repo.  Both patches have their own branch, and upstream/redhat
> merges the master branch into them.  So around the time of an
> upstream release I do git diff release...branch to get the new patch.
> 
> Those branches contain several patches, so it's not a single
> commit.  And I'm not sure how to properly put in the header
> where it comes from.

I would suggesto to put an URL pointing to a branch instead of pointing to
a specific commit. And explain in the description how the patch was
generated.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog


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