[FFmpeg-devel] patch submission questions

[Andriy Gelman]

On Sun, 05. Jul 20:34, Manolis Stamatogiannakis wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 at 15:48, Hongcheng Zhong <sj.hc_Zhong at sjtu.edu.cn>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > You can use `git format-patch -v<n> -n<n>` to get patches like [PATCH
> > v2 1/20]. See git-format-patch documentation for more details.
> >
> >
> That didn't quite work.
> 
> I used "git format-patch -s -n -v3 --to ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org
> HEAD~2..HEAD" and "git send-email -2".
> 
> But the -v argument was dropped and the end results on patchwork were again:
> [FFmpeg-devel,2/2] avfilter/vf_subtitles: Added shift option for
> subtitles/ass filters.
> [FFmpeg-devel,1/2] avfilter/vf_subtitles: Reorganized subtitles filter
> options.
> 

git send-email -v2 HEAD~ # works for me

git shows are draft of the email before sending. Check that the subject line
contains the version number (or you can send the patch to yourself)

For patchwork, you can create an account and set your old patches as 'Superseded'. 
I also periodically run a script that sets Superseded and Accepted labels.

-- 
Andriy