Re: push patch for issue 2679

[David Nalesnik]

David,

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:50 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

David Nalesnik <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Graham Percival
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 05:26:01PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote:
>     > I'd be happy to push this, but would like a little advice.  If I
>     > go to Rietveld and download the raw patch set, it comes without
>     > proper email addresses and formatting.  This means to push stuff
>     > from Rietveld, I have to git apply the diff, then manually
>     > update the author (assuming I remember).  Is there a way of
>     > getting a formatted patch?
>
>
>     Don't apply things directly from Rietveld.  Due to the problems
>     that you discovered, we can only use it as a reviewing tool, not a
>     patch management tool.
>
>     David Nalesnik should send you the file he gets from
>     git format-patch, after he fixed all merge conflicts etc.
>
>
> Arggh...sorry for making a hash of this :(  Hopefully, this patch will
> be properly formatted...

Yup.  A matter of personal taste (you can do that just with git commit
--amend): the commit message is

[PATCH] Function for overriding broken spanners

We don't commit anything other than patches.  That's redundant.  But

Issue 2679: Function for overriding broken spanners

would make it easier to find the corresponding issue in case one needs
to revisit the commit at one point of time.

I just tried to change the commit message as you said.  When I check the amended patch, however, the subject line at the top of the file is:

Subject: [PATCH] Issue 2679: Function for overriding broken spanners

Apparently, [PATCH] is added automatically when I make a new patch with the LilyDev interface.  (It doesn't appear in nano.)  I can, of course, just remove "[PATCH]" manually and save.

-David