Re: [PATCH 0/3] BaseTools: Add a script to use with 'git-send-email --cc-cmd'

["Leif Lindholm" <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>]

Hi Phil,

This is definitely a manual step that could do with automation, so
many thanks for having a go. ...But, I have a few reservations
regarding the actual solution.

First of all, doing it as a .sh means it will not work for those
developers working primarily with Visual Studio. Rewriting it as
python script would resolve this, and also let you import
GetMaintainer.py and use functions from there instead of adding a
quiet mode to that. (I would very much like to not turn the
GetMaintainer.py output into an ABI.)

Secondly, I agree with Laszlo that I would rather see something that
operated with format-patch than send-email (since we want to keep the
Cc: tags in the commit messages). That command does not have the same
useful hook, however.

For this reason *I* would not use said script, but I'm not going to
say we shouldn't have it. I will say it shouldn't be enabled by
default by SetupGit.py though.

Best Regards,

Leif

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 04:09:37PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daude wrote:
> This series contains trivial fixes to the GetMaintainer.py script,
> then adds a new script which allow git-send-email to automatically
> fills the email addresses relevant to each patch, using the new
> Maintainer.txt format (with the GetMaintainer.py script).
> 
> I sent this series adding:
> 
> [sendemail]
>     ccCmd = /home/phil/source/edk2/BaseTools/Scripts/GitCcCmd.sh
> 
> To my /home/phil/source/edk2/.git/config
> 
> The sendemail.ccCmd entry is documented here:
> https://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email#Documentation/git-send-email.txt---cc-cmdltcommandgt
>
> Regards,
> 
> Phil.
> 
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (3):
>   BaseTools: Let the GetMaintainer.py script be executable
>   BaseTools: Add '--quiet' option to GetMaintainer.py script
>   BaseTools: Add script to help git-send-email pick addresses to cc
> 
>  BaseTools/Scripts/GetMaintainer.py |  9 +++++--
>  BaseTools/Scripts/GitCcCmd.sh      | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>  mode change 100644 => 100755 BaseTools/Scripts/GetMaintainer.py
>  create mode 100755 BaseTools/Scripts/GitCcCmd.sh
> 
> -- 
> 2.21.0
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