Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: checkpatch: steer people away from using file paths

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 12:52:07 -0700

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 19:25:09 +0200 Greg KH wrote:
> I do:
> 	- git format-patch to generate the patch series.
> 	- run the generate_cc_list script which creates XXXX.info files
> 	  (the XXXX being the patch number) that contain the
> 	  people/lists to cc: on the patch
> 	- git rebase -i on the patch series and edit the changelog
> 	  description and paste in the XXXX.info file for that specific
> 	  patch.
> 
> Yeah, it's a lot of manual steps, I should use b4 for it, one of these
> days...

Oh, neat! I do a similar thing. Modulo the number of steps:

  git rebase --exec './ccer.py --inline'

I was wondering if I was the only one who pastes the Cc: person
into the patch, because I'd love to teach get_maintainer to do
the --inline thing, instead of carrying my own wrapper...