From: Jeff King Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 16:24:58 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] filter-branch: return 2 when nothing to rewrite Message-ID: <20180315162457.GA31351@sigill.intra.peff.net> In-Reply-To: On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 05:18:59PM +0100, Michele Locati wrote: > Great! So, I'm ready to update the patch, including the doc changes, > which will be > the one suggested by Jeff: > [...] Sounds good. > And yes, I'm a brand new contributor, so here's my question: how should I > send an updated patch? I can't find anything related to this in > https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/SubmittingPatches Usually you'd just send it in reply to the original thread with "[PATCH v2]" instead of just "[PATCH]" in the subject line. If you're using format-patch or send-email, you should be able to just add "-v2" (and --in-reply-to if you want to join the existing thread). I thought SubmittingPatches discussed patch "re-rolls" like this, but I don't see any mention of it from a quick grep. -Peff