Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> --- README | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 920cf3c..0f5ae88 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -126,6 +126,11 @@ 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. +It is highly recommended to check out the most recent upstream/main branch +in $STABLE_DIR as the tools will make use of the MAINTAINERS file found there. +If not checking out the latest the generated addresses might be outdated and +not reach the current maintainers. + 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. -- 2.31.1
On Thu, 2021-05-20 at 10:13 +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> ---
> README | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/README b/README
> index 920cf3c..0f5ae88 100644
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -126,6 +126,11 @@ 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.
>
> +It is highly recommended to check out the most recent upstream/main branch
> +in $STABLE_DIR as the tools will make use of the MAINTAINERS file found there.
> +If not checking out the latest the generated addresses might be outdated and
> +not reach the current maintainers.
> +
> 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.
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
--
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 10:39 AM Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 2021-05-20 at 10:13 +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> > > --- > > README | 5 +++++ > > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) > > > > diff --git a/README b/README > > index 920cf3c..0f5ae88 100644 > > --- a/README > > +++ b/README > > @@ -126,6 +126,11 @@ 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. > > > > +It is highly recommended to check out the most recent upstream/main branch > > +in $STABLE_DIR as the tools will make use of the MAINTAINERS file found there. > > +If not checking out the latest the generated addresses might be outdated and > > +not reach the current maintainers. > > + > > 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. > > Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> Thanks, pushed now together with the other outstanding changes to stable-scripts > -- > Kind regards, > Luca Boccassi -- Christian Ehrhardt Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server Canonical Ltd