Re: [Qemu-devel] Switching to git

[Andreas Färber]

Am 22.04.2009 um 16:22 schrieb Anthony Liguori:

> Laurent Desnogues wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Anthony Liguori  
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > For users, to get the latest QEMU bits, you would do:
> > >
> > > $ git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu.git
> > >
> > >
> > > For maintainers, Savannah has a getting started page that  
> > > describes how to
> > > push commits at http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/UsingGit
> >
> > And what for people between users and maintainers, for instance those
> > who propose patches?  Will there be some recommendations on how
> > to post patches so that it works well?  And don't forget that for  
> > some
> > people just telling "a set of patches is good as long as it can be
> > bisected" is too short :-)
>
> Yup, we'll have a SubmittingPatches that provides the recommended  
> work flow.  A really nice property of git is that if you use the  
> various git tools to send patches (git-format-patch/git-send-email)  
> then a maintainer can grab those automatically via git-am.  It  
> significantly reduces the likelihood of loosing information in the  
> process.

Unfortunately tools like git-send-email make me loose information  
instead, by not saving the sent patches in my mail client's or IMAP  
server's Sent Mail folder...

Andreas