Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH, RFC] Add file describing rules for submitting patches

[François Revol]

> > > I gathered a few common complaints about patch submission,
> > > hopefully
> > > not too much affected by my consumption of small amounts of
> > > various
> > > alcoholic substances.
> > >
> > > Comments, objections?
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > > +SP4.1: It must be possible to apply the patch with quilt
> > > (equivalent
> > > +to patch -p1) and "git am" without any editing or extra flags
> > >
> >
> >  svn diff generates -p0 patches so both -p1 and -p0 should be
> > accepted.
>
> Quilt does not accept -p0 patches without extra work. Remember, the
> idea is to reduce our burden, make it easier to test and apply
> patches.

Isn't it some opensource thingy ? Then you can fix it, right ?

I don't enjoy the perspective of taking the burden of switching from
svn to git just because of it.

François.