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authorTrent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>2007-07-11 22:00:04 -0700
committerTrent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>2007-07-11 22:00:04 -0700
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Add script for generating pull requests
From: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org> Add scripts/hg-pull-req.pl, which generates a nicely formatted pull request. Mention it in README.patches. Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
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@@ -86,6 +86,13 @@ sends a request the developers' mailing list and to the subsystem
maintainer. The patches are analyzed and, if they look ok, merged into
the master repository.
+A script called hg-pull-req.pl is included that will generate this
+request, providing a list of patches that will be pulled, links to each
+patch, and a diffstat of the all patches. It will work best if Hg has
+been configured with the correct username (also used by the commit
+message generator) and push path. The script is designed to be easy to
+modify to produce text for a given contributor's style.
+
It is good practice that each developer will have at least one tree
called 'v4l-dvb', which keeps their patches, and periodically update
this tree with the master tree's patches.