Re: [Qemu-devel] Howto: instructing patchew about patch dependency

[Peter Maydell]

On 8 August 2017 at 03:02, Fam Zheng <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi, QEMU patch submitters,
>
> I've patched patchew so that if you add a line:
>
> Based-on: $MESSAGE_ID
>
> in your cover letter body, or in a reply to it (or reply to reply), patchew 
> will
> try to apply your series on top of the one $MESSAGE_ID refers to, assuming the
> base series _was_ successfully applied by patchew earlier.
>
> In the single patch case, you can put the line under the "---" mark in the
> commit message (no need to let it enter git history).
>
> For human readability, around the "Based-on:" line it may be better if the
> subject is noted. E.g.:
>
> Based-on: address@hidden

Does the parser accept message-ids with their angle-brackets <>
around them, or does it insist they be stripped out?

thanks
-- PMM