From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: julia.lawall@lip6.fr (Julia Lawall) Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 20:08:33 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Cocci] sending out trewide patches In-Reply-To: <20181027171438.GD4170@linux.ibm.com> References: <20181027171438.GD4170@linux.ibm.com> Message-ID: To: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr List-Id: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr On Sat, 27 Oct 2018, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 08:38:02AM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > Hello, > > > > At OSS Europe, I got some questions about how to send out large > > Coccinelle-generated patches. Coccinelle provides a tool tools/splitpatch > > (go to the tools subdirectory of the Coccinelle distribution and run make) > > that splits patches by set of maintainers (the default), by directory > > (--dirmerge option), or by file (--nomerge option). There is a file > > tools/splitpatch.README that explains the various ways that it can be > > used, but the simplest is to create a patch normally using > > git format-patch -s, obtaining eg 0001-changes.patch, and then run > > > > splitpatch 0001-changes.patch > > > > The output will include a 0001-changes.cover file, a set of > > 0001-changesN.patch files with the various split patches, and a > > 0001-changes.cmd file for sending it off with git send-email. > > > > This is available in the latest github version of Coccinelle. Comments > > are welcome. > > Thank you, Julia! I will give it a try. > > Thanx, Paul > > PS. And in case you didn't make it there... ;-) > > https://www.spatchchicken.co.uk/ > https://www.spatchchicken.co.uk/about-us.html Amazing. Thanks! julia