From: Dragan Simic Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 20:54:18 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Assorted improvements salvaged from an earlier series Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 2024-03-25 21:49, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 4:41 PM Dragan Simic > wrote: >> On 2024-03-25 21:39, Eric Sunshine wrote: >> > Prose description of the changes between versions is very much welcome >> > by reviewers, but please also include a range-diff[1] or interdiff[2] >> > when preparing a reroll. >> >> Ah, sorry, I didn't forget about that, but I just intended to start >> providing range-diffs for future patches. These were more like new >> versions of old patches. > > The range-diff is particularly valuable exactly for this case (new > versions of old patches) since it is a "diff" between the old patches > and the new patches. Thus, it provides reviewers with a precise > summary of what changed between, say, v2 and v3 of a series, and > manifests as a concrete representation of what your prose explanation > describes. I see, and I do understand the purpose of range-diffs: they make reviewing new patch versions significantly easier, by relieving the reviewers from the need to track down what has been changed in the current patch version.