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git-series(1) General Commands Manual git-series(1)
git-series - track changes to a patch series with git
git series [SUBCOMMAND] [OPTIONS]
git series tracks changes to a patch series over time. git series also tracks a cover letter for the patch series, formats the series for email, and prepares pull requests. Use git series start seriesname to start a patch series seriesname. Use normal git commands to commit changes, and use git series status to check what has changed. Use git series cover to add or edit a cover letter. Use git series add and git series commit (or git series commit -a) to commit changes to the patch series. Use git series rebase -i to help rework or reorganize the patch series. Use git series format to prepare the patch series to send via email, or git series req to prepare a "please pull" mail. Running git series without arguments shows the list of patch series, marking the current patch series with a '*'.
git series add change... Add changes to the staging area for the next git series commit. change... Changes to add: any combination of "series", "base", and "cover". git series base [-d|--delete] [base] Get or set the base commit for the patch series. With no parameters, print the hash of the base commit. With parameters, set or delete the base commit. This only changes the base in the working version of the patch series; use git series add base to add that change to the next git series commit, or use git series commit -a to commit the new base and all other changes to the series in one step. base New base commit. This can use a commit hash, ref name, or special syntaxes such as refname^ or refname~2. -d|--delete Delete the current base commit. git series checkout name Resume work on the patch series name; check out the current version as HEAD. git series commit [-a|--all] [-m message] [-v|--verbose] Record a new version of the patch series. Without arguments, this will run an editor to edit a commit message, and then commit the changes previously added with git series add. -a|--all Commit all changes, not just those added with git series add. -m message Use message as the commit message, rather than running an editor. -v|--verbose Show a diff of the commit in the editor, below the commit message, as a reminder of the changes in the commit. This diff will not appear in the commit message. git series cover [-d|--delete] Create or edit the cover letter for the patch series. Without arguments, this will run an editor to edit the cover letter. This only changes the cover letter in the working version of the patch series; use git series add cover to add that change to the next git series commit, or use git series commit -a to commit the new cover letter and all other changes to the series in one step. -d|--delete Delete the cover letter rather than editing it. git series cp [source] dest Copy the series source to dest, including any work in progress, staged or unstaged. source defaults to the current series if omitted. git series delete name Delete the series name, including any work in progress, staged or unstaged. git series detach Stop working on any patch series. Any changes in progress, staged or unstaged, will remain intact. To start working on the branch again, use git series checkout. git series diff Show changes to the patch series from the current working version to the staged version. Changes to the cover letter appear as standard text diffs. If both the old and new version contain base and series entries, git series diff will find and show the correspondence between the old and new versions of each commit. The series diff format shows reordered commits, deleted or added commits, and modified commits. For modified commits, the series diff includes a simplified interdiff between the commits. git series format [--in-reply-to=Message-Id] [--no-from] [-v N | --reroll-count=N] [--rfc] [--stdout] [--subject-prefix=prefix] Prepare the patch series to send via email. This creates one file per patch in the series, plus one additional file for the cover letter if any. The patch series must have a base set with git series base, to identify the series of patches to format. Each file contains one email in mbox format, ready to send, with email headers threading all the patches together. If the series has a cover letter, all of the patches will include headers to make them a reply to the cover letter; otherwise, all of the patches will include headers to make them a reply to the first patch. --in-reply-to=Message-Id Make the first mail a reply to the specified Message-Id. The Message-Id may include or omit the surrounding angle brackets; git-series will add them if not present. --no-from By default, git series format includes a "From:" line in the mail body for the commit author when formatting commits you didn't write; this allows you to send the patches as emails from your own address while preserving authorship information for each patch. git series format --no-from will instead use the commit author as the "From:" address for each patch mail. Use this when producing patch files for purposes other than email. -v N | --reroll-count=N Mark the patch series as PATCH vN. The patch filenames and mail subjects will include the version number. --rfc Use [RFC PATCH] instead of the standard [PATCH] prefix. --stdout Write the entire patch series to stdout rather than to separate patch files. --subject-prefix=prefix Use [prefix] instead of the standard [PATCH] prefix. git series help [subcommand] Show help for git series or a subcommand. Without arguments, shows a summary of the subcommands supported by git series. subcommand Show help for subcommand. git series log [-p|--patch] Show the history of the patch series. -p|--patch Include a patch for each change committed to the series. This uses the same series diff format as git series diff. git series mv [source] dest Move (rename) the series source to dest, including any work in progress, staged or unstaged. source defaults to the current series if omitted. Moving the current series will make the destination the current series. You can also invoke this as git series rename. git series rebase [-i|--interactive] [onto] Rebase the patch series, either onto a new base, interactively, or both. The patch series must have a base set with git series base, to identify the series of patches to rebase. onto Commit to rebase the series onto. This can use a commit hash, ref name, or special syntaxes such as refname^ or refname~2. -i|--interactive Interactively edit the list of commits. This uses the same format and syntax as git rebase -i, to allow reordering, dropping, combining, or editing commits. git series req [-p|--patch] url tag Generate a mail requesting a pull of the patch series. Before running this command, push the patch series to the repository at url, as a tag or branch named tag. A pull request for a signed or annotated tag will include the message from the tag. The pull request will also include the cover letter if any, unless the tag message already contains the cover letter. The subject of the mail will include the first line from the cover letter, or the name of the series if no cover letter. The patch series must have a base set with git series base, to identify the series of patches to request a pull of. url URL of the repository to pull from. tag Name of a tag or branch to request a pull from. -p|--patch Include a patch showing the combined change made by all the patches in the series. This can help a reviewer see the effect of pulling the series. git series start name Start a new patch series named name. git series status Show the status of the current patch series. This shows any changes staged for the next git series commit, changes in the current working copy but not staged for the next git series commit, and hints about the next commands to run. git series unadd change Remove changes from the next git series commit, undoing git series add. The changes remain in the current working version of the series. change... Changes to remove: any combination of "series", "base", and "cover".
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