patman: Support updating a branch with review tags
It is tedious to add review tags into the local branch and errors can
sometimes be made. Add an option to create a new branch with the review
tags obtained from patchwork.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
diff --git a/tools/patman/README b/tools/patman/README
index 46b8e25..15da6dc 100644
--- a/tools/patman/README
+++ b/tools/patman/README
@@ -11,11 +11,13 @@
- Runs the patches through checkpatch.pl and its own checks
- Optionally emails them out to selected people
-It also shows review tags from Patchwork so you can update your local patches.
+It also has some Patchwork features:
+- shows review tags from Patchwork so you can update your local patches
+- pulls these down into a new branch on request
It is intended to automate patch creation and make it a less
error-prone process. It is useful for U-Boot and Linux work so far,
-since it uses the checkpatch.pl script.
+since they use the checkpatch.pl script.
It is configured almost entirely by tags it finds in your commits.
This means that you can work on a number of different branches at
@@ -385,6 +387,19 @@
these commits with the new review tag before sending the next version of the
series.
+To automatically pull into these tags into a new branch, use the -d option:
+
+ patman status -d mtrr4
+
+This will create a new 'mtrr4' branch which is the same as your current branch
+but has the new review tags in it. The tags are added in alphabetic order and
+are placed immediately after any existing ack/review/test/fixes tags, or at the
+end. You can check that this worked with:
+
+ patman -b mtrr4 status
+
+which should show that there are no new responses compared to this new branch.
+
Example Work Flow
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