[FFmpeg-devel] Need help submitting a patch

Nicolas George george at nsup.org
Tue May 3 10:54:49 EEST 2022


Traian Coza (12022-05-03):
> Hi! I am new to contributing to FFmpeg, and I have a technical question.
> 
> I'm trying to submit a patch, but it's a fairly large patch, which I've
> made in multiple commits. I don't know how to generate the email for this
> patch. The example command given on the website (with format-patch) only
> generates the email for a single commit. I've searched the web and I don't
> really see an easy way to do it. Can someone help me out with this?

First, make sure your multiple commits are really there: check they are
all visible in `git log`.

Then, what is your git format-patch exact command? If it ends in "-1",
then the result you are seeing is normal: the -1 is telling it to take
the last patch.

You need to tell git format-patch the last commit before yours. You can
get it from `git log`. It would be even simpler if you thought of making
a branch: then you just need to specify the name of the branch from
which you branched.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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