[Ksummit-2012-discuss] [ATTEND] Your upstream maintainer just isn't that into you...

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Tue Jun 26 23:52:12 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 06:48:41PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > Would a basic, "here's how I work" type writeup or screencast help
> > people out with seeing how we do things to help other maintainers out?
> > I don't think it's worth a whole session at KS to go over this, but
> > perhaps it is if people feel it would be worth it.  I know I've gotten
> > tips on how to use git from just about everyone I've seen use it over
> > the years, so perhaps a short 5 minute session from a few of us would be
> > benificial?
> 
> It would be. For one I am not so sure whether the model I am using
> is the best - and seeing somebodies else model (and finding out what
> works and what does not) would be beneficial.
> 
> One issue I've been having issues is using mutt to save a list of
> patches (so tag them, then Esc-;-s to some mbox) and then using git am.
> It always dies on me b/c the mbox emails are out of order: 
> 2/9, 9/9, 1/9, etc. And "git am" seems to enjoy doing it in the
> mbox order instead of looking at the 1/9, 2/9 headers.
> Or maybe it is me not using 'mutt's command effectivly?

Hint, you can sort the emails and have mutt write them out properly.

Short example of how I do this:
	tag the email thread to save:	Esc t
	save them all to a new mbox:	; s ~/linux/work/s
	quit mutt
	open the new mbox:		mutt -f ~/linux/work/s
	sort the messages:		o s
	select them all:		ESC t
	write them back out:		; s ~/linux/work/s
	quit mutt
	then apply the mbox:		git am -s ~/linux/work/s

Wow, that looks complex, I swear that all really just takes me less than
a minute to do, my mutt muscle memory must be deep.

> Either way, would like to see a short session of "Greg KH's
> workday compressed in 5 minutes." to educate myself.

Ok, fair enough, I can do that.

thanks,

greg k-h


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