From: Ron Madrid Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:05:43 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] New Board support: Makefile MAKEALL, etc Message-ID: <243475.2568.qm@web83507.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de > > > please reorder patchseries or, even better, resubmit as one single > > > patch so as to not break git bisecting. > > > > I don't understand this. Could you elaborate? > > people doing a "git bisect run" on, e.g. MAKEALL 83xx would > inadvertently run into an error because your 1/4 patch (commit) adds a > non-existent board to MAKEALL. So, I should put the patch for the top level files such as Makefile and MAKEALL as the last of a series of patches? That makes sense. But are you also suggesting that my 4 patches could be submitted as one single patch. I was worried that I might exceed the patch size limit. > > > > s/Signed off by/Signed-off-by/ so as to not upset statistics tools. > > > > This also. I'm sorry. > "This also." meant that I also didn't understand your meaning on the "Signed off by" part. Thanks, Ron