Re: Stable -rc git trees and email headers

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 10:12:14AM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 08:11:41AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 08:02:14AM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> >> > Hi Greg,
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > [...]
> >> >
> >> > > Kevin, hopefully this tree also helps you.  I will also be adding some
> >> > > email headers to my announcements of the -rc releases that you can
> >> > > parse.  Here is what they are going to look like for an example release:
> >> > >
> >> > > X-KernelTest-Patch: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.14-rc1.gz
> >> > > X-KernelTest-Tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
> >> > > X-KernelTest-Branch: linux-4.4.y
> >> > > X-KernelTest-Patches: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git
> >> > > X-KernelTest-Version: 4.4.14-rc1
> >> > > X-KernelTest-Deadline: 2016-06-20T02:57+00:00
> >> > >
> >> > > Will those work out?
> >> >
> >> > Can you add one more:  X-KernelTest-PatchCount ?
> >> >
> >> > Which would include the total number of patches in the series/branch?
> >> > This will help us determine uniqueness for a given branch.
> >>
> >> What do you mean by "uniqueness"?
> >>
> >> As these are going to be the -rc releases, they will be unique from any
> >> other -rc release.
> >
> > I guess he means between incremental updates, though that doesn't work
> > if you drop a patch.
> 
> Right, you add/drop patches as various regressions come in, so the
> branch is going to keep changing, even though it's going to continue
> to be called -rc1.
> 
> Actually, now that you're using git trees, even better than patch
> count would be just to publish the result of 'git describe' on the
> branch you've pushed.  That includes the patch count and the has of
> the top commit.
> 
> X-KernelTest-GitDescribe?

Ugh, my emails and git tree creations are separate scripts.  Well,
kinda, it's all a big mess.  I'll try add this later on, let's start
with the ones we have now and see if those help out :)

thanks,

greg k-h