[FFmpeg-devel] patch submission questions

[Steinar H. Gunderson]

On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 03:42:34PM +0200, Manolis Stamatogiannakis wrote:
> Q2: In a patchset consisting of several commits, is each commit expected to
> be "standalone"? I.e. does it have to apply cleanly without depending on
> the previous commits in the patchset?

No, but it has to compile and work even if not applying any of the latter patches.
(This increases reviewability and bisectability.) AFAIK Patchwork doesn't
enforce this, though.

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