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diff --git a/tools/patman/README b/tools/patman/README index 46b8e251ca5..15da6dc33cb 100644 --- a/tools/patman/README +++ b/tools/patman/README @@ -11,11 +11,13 @@ This tool is a Python script which: - Runs the patches through checkpatch.pl and its own checks - Optionally emails them out to selected people -It also shows review tags from Patchwork so you can update your local patches. +It also has some Patchwork features: +- shows review tags from Patchwork so you can update your local patches +- pulls these down into a new branch on request It is intended to automate patch creation and make it a less error-prone process. It is useful for U-Boot and Linux work so far, -since it uses the checkpatch.pl script. +since they use the checkpatch.pl script. It is configured almost entirely by tags it finds in your commits. This means that you can work on a number of different branches at @@ -385,6 +387,19 @@ attracted another review each. If the series needs changes, you can update these commits with the new review tag before sending the next version of the series. +To automatically pull into these tags into a new branch, use the -d option: + + patman status -d mtrr4 + +This will create a new 'mtrr4' branch which is the same as your current branch +but has the new review tags in it. The tags are added in alphabetic order and +are placed immediately after any existing ack/review/test/fixes tags, or at the +end. You can check that this worked with: + + patman -b mtrr4 status + +which should show that there are no new responses compared to this new branch. + Example Work Flow ================= |