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 DA743A054F for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2021 07:47:37 +0100 (CET) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACC6440142; Tue, 2 Mar 2021 07:47:37 +0100 (CET) Received: from mellanox.co.il (mail-il-dmz.mellanox.com [193.47.165.129]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1134B40142 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2021 07:47:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from Internal Mail-Server by MTLPINE1 (envelope-from xuemingl@nvidia.com) with SMTP; 2 Mar 2021 08:47:35 +0200 Received: from nvidia.com ([172.27.8.104]) by labmailer.mlnx (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id 1226lXYa006034; Tue, 2 Mar 2021 08:47:34 +0200 From: Xueming Li To: stable@dpdk.org, Luca Boccassi Cc: Christian Ehrhardt Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 14:47:25 +0800 Message-Id: <20210302064725.22965-1-xuemingl@nvidia.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [dpdk-stable] [scripts] README: add hint on commit range to generate backport list 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" Adds tip of the commit range to generate backport list. Signed-off-by: Xueming Li --- README | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 6489379..e9795b5 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -26,8 +26,10 @@ as tmp dir for the patches and mails. 1.A --- A list of commits to backport should be generated. This can be generated -from "git-log-fixes.sh" script from DPDK. Assuming v17.11-rc1 is out -you can prepare a commit list for v17.08.1 stable release with: +from "git-log-fixes.sh" script from DPDK. Normally the start of range is +the end tag of last generated range, branch tag if working on the first +stable release. The end of range is latest release tag. Assuming v17.11-rc1 +is out you can prepare a commit list for v17.08.1 stable release with: $ ./devtools/git-log-fixes.sh v17.08..v17.11-rc1 > /tmp/list -- 2.25.1