Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/4] IOMMU: allow MSI message to IRTE propagation to fail

[Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>]

At 11:14 +0000 on 28 Mar (1364469245), Jan Beulich wrote:
> > It seems like having an automated way to send off an entire patch queue, 
> > rather than cutting and pasting and attaching each mail individually, 
> > would reduce the cognitive load for you as well (not to mention probably 
> > save you several minutes of your day).  git and mercurial both have 
> > really good integrated mechanisms to do that; both also have extensions 
> > that allow you interact with the repository just like you do with 
> > quilt.  I'm not familiar with the git ones, but the mercurial one uses 
> > almost exactly the same commands as quilt, but with "hg" instead of 
> > "quilt" at the front (if I remember quilt correctly -- it's been a long 
> > time since I used it).
> 
> Indeed this might save me some time when sending the patches.
> But would it not require more time when fiddling with the patches
> while putting them together? As an example, I don't normally
> write patch descriptions right away, but do so only when getting
> ready to submit the patches. With git wanting to create a commit
> out of everything, I have to then run extra git commands to get
> the description added to each patch. Whereas with quilt this is a
> simple editing of the patch file, easily cut-n-paste between
> different instances of the patch on different trees (which I
> particularly find myself in need of when producing security fixes
> and their backports).

I'm fond of hg's patchqueues for the same reasons -- they behave
basically like quilt does, but you can then use hg email to
automatically send a whole series.  On git, I'm experimenting with guilt
to do the same, thuogh of course it's all a bit less user-friendly. 

Tim.

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