From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A173BA0A02 for ; Tue, 18 May 2021 11:27:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9635640041; Tue, 18 May 2021 11:27:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from youngberry.canonical.com (youngberry.canonical.com [91.189.89.112]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A5FA40041 for ; Tue, 18 May 2021 11:27:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 2.general.paelzer.uk.vpn ([10.172.196.173] helo=Keschdeichel.fritz.box) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (Exim 4.93) (envelope-from ) id 1liw0t-00060h-1g; Tue, 18 May 2021 09:27:43 +0000 From: Christian Ehrhardt To: stable@dpdk.org, Thomas Monjalon , Luca Boccassi Cc: Christian Ehrhardt Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 11:27:41 +0200 Message-Id: <20210518092741.3544007-1-christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.31.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] README: clarify the input of step 3 X-BeenThere: stable@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: patches for DPDK stable branches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: stable-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "stable" Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt --- README | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 70f4320..920cf3c 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -126,6 +126,14 @@ The 'devtools/get-maintainer.sh' tool from the DPDK repository is used to compile the list of maintainers to CC for each patch. A configuration file needs to be set up first, see the script itself for instructions. +If you use GIT_AM_PAUSE_ON_FAIL="yes" you can call 3-request-backport without +a list and it will process patches in xx.yy.z/tmp_import/list that it does +not find as applied in the git history from the current head. + +If you want to manually keep lists the format needed is multiple lines of: + "commit-id path-to-patch-file" +Patch files could be created via `git format-patch -1` or similar. + 4-final-review ============== -- 2.31.1