Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Aug 2010 00:25:02 +0200 | Subject | Re: Best way to send several patches | From | Bjarke Istrup Pedersen <> |
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2010/8/6 Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>: > > The question is, should I just send them all to this mailinglist > > (Section 3 of Documentation/SubmittingPatches - the one with the patch > > bomb - suggest that this is a bad idea), or how should I do it? (I > > have only submitted a single patch before, so I didn't have to worry > > about that back then). > > I would suggest sending a small batch of patches (say, four or five at > most) and see how that goes. That way, in case you make some mistake in > formatting or something, you don't have to send another huge pile when > you resend. > > Once your initial batch is accepted and you have the hang of submitting > patches, then you can submit bigger batches. But I would recommend > having each batch have a common theme. For example there was the recent > series of 42 fixes for confusing if indentation -- a big batch of fixes > for the same problem in different places, which is exactly the right way > to do things.
Thanks, I'll do that. But I'll wait until rc1 is out as suggested :-)
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