[admin] Sending patches

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Thu Feb 1 17:08:48 CET 2018


Werner Koch wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> this is quick note to ask you to always include a tag like [gpgme] or
> [gnupg] etc. in the subject when sending a patch.
> 
> This mailing list is used for several projects and it makes the
> maintainer task easier if there is no need to guess for which project
> the patch is intended.

This can be done fairly simply when using git format-patch.
The format.subjectPrefix option can be set per repository.
For example, if I were working in a clone of gnupg.git, I
could use:

    $ git config format.subjectPrefix 'PATCH/gnupg'

and then generated patches would have a subject line like:

    Subject: [PATCH/gnupg] ...

Perhaps that's worth adding to https://git.gnupg.org/ or
similar?

-- 
Todd
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superstition, and art into pedantry.  Hence University education.
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