Re: stgit: editing description of patch

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Oct 4, 2007, 15:48 UTC
Message-ID: <20071004154836.GB21717@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910710040616l5358099dj1b65b47cf94cf031@mail.gmail.com>

On 2007-10-04 09:16:46 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:

> Why is mailing a patch series so slow?

Because the default per-patch delay is 5 seconds. You can change it by setting stgit.smtpdelay in your config, or passing --sleep on the command line.

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> There also seems to be a disconnect when mailing patches. Locally
> the patches have a name, when you email them it uses the short
> description for the name by default instead of the local name. This
> may cause confusion because the emailed name does not default to the
> local name. A parallel issue happens on import.
>
> Now that I am aware of the naming scheme I can deal with it, but
> this may be a problem for new users. It might be better to force the
> short description and local name to always match.

I've never thought of the patch names as anything that would make sense to export from a repository (like reflogs), so using the first line of the commit message for mail subject (like git does) always seemed like a no-brainer. But then I don't have any experience using quilt or any related tool.

The default when creating a new patch is to make up a name from its commit message (the user is free to give a name explicitly, however); the same goes when you import a patch mbox. But when importing a patch series (with "stg import --series"), I see the names are taken from the series file you import. Maybe that should change, at least optionally.

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