On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 22:24 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@codeweavers.com wrote:
"Zachary Goldberg" zgold550@gmail.com wrote:
Policy is that all patches should be independent, no?
There is no such a policy. Dependent patches are marked as 1/xx, 2/xx, ... xx/xx.
That's a patch series, and patchwatcher handles that ok.
There's another kind of dependent patch, where somebody says "This requires Harold's patch from yesterday". Patchwatcher probably isn't going to handle that ever.
What about checking for a string in the email like "patchwatchignore"; if for some reason the patch is known to cause a failure the e-mail might read like: patchwatchignore This depends on Harald's patch from yesterday... [patch]
This also might be useful for patches which update comments or README files, etc.