Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH] mail-single-patch.diff

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Sunday 18 September 2005 05:22, John Vandenberg wrote:
> On 9/18/05, Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden> wrote:
> > This patch allows calling quilt mail with a list of patch names
> > after the usual arguments, and mails only those patches rather
> > than the entire series.  If only a single patch is named then it
> > is put into the bady of a single mail (that's what I'm using to
> > send this patch)
>
> Hi Gary,
>
> This patch makes `mail' the first command to operate on multiple
> patches outside of the series.  While I would enjoy being able to send
> a single patch, or a sub-series, I don't think quilt should generate
> emails that can't be applied on the receiving end.  In other words, in
> order to send an adhoc set of patches, `mail' should first verify that
> the dependency graph of the selected patches is sane.

It can't really do that without actually trying to apply the patches as 
specified, and even that doesn't guarantee that all hunks get applied in the 
appropriate place. (The result of the graph command isn't "precise" enough 
and doesn't account for fuzzy matches, etc.)

How about specifying a sub-series instead, like the diff command allows?

What I'd like to have in addition in the 0th message is the patch series, 
optionally with the patch subjects, generated from the patches -- something 
like:

  one.diff
    Add feature

  two.diff
    Fix bug

  three.diff
    Remove dead code

Next we probably want to allow sending patches as reply to another message. 
I'm still short of good ideas with this.

-- Andreas.