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| author | Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> | 2012-09-27 15:06:02 +0000 |
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| committer | Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> | 2012-10-15 11:54:03 -0700 |
| commit | ef0e9de82be6bb14e1a7c5c28f976c4fced12ed2 (patch) | |
| tree | fe9ea0edbf5d3eecddc978904e7d9bde84bdd585 /tools | |
| parent | 33f336d528d7e50947575613f2d9678bbced0445 (diff) | |
patman: Support Series-name tag to name a series
Sometimes it is possible to forget the name of the branch you used to
generate an upstream series. To assist with this, add an optional
patman does not use this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/patman/README | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/patman/series.py | 4 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/patman/README b/tools/patman/README index 86ede78d35c..dc3957ce6fd 100644 --- a/tools/patman/README +++ b/tools/patman/README @@ -133,6 +133,11 @@ Series-prefix: prefix Sets the subject prefix. Normally empty but it can be RFC for RFC patches, or RESEND if you are being ignored. +Series-name: name + Sets the name of the series. You don't need to have a name, and + patman does not yet use it, but it is convenient to put the branch + name here to help you keep track of multiple upstreaming efforts. + Cover-letter: This is the patch set title blah blah diff --git a/tools/patman/series.py b/tools/patman/series.py index ce36b230a36..a283a2d1f4b 100644 --- a/tools/patman/series.py +++ b/tools/patman/series.py @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ import gitutil import terminal # Series-xxx tags that we understand -valid_series = ['to', 'cc', 'version', 'changes', 'prefix', 'notes']; +valid_series = ['to', 'cc', 'version', 'changes', 'prefix', 'notes', 'name']; class Series(dict): """Holds information about a patch series, including all tags. @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ class Series(dict): self[name] = value else: raise ValueError("In %s: line '%s': Unknown 'Series-%s': valid " - "options are %s" % (self.commit.hash, line, name, + "options are %s" % (commit.hash, line, name, ', '.join(valid_series))) def AddCommit(self, commit): |