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| '''NB: this page is a draft work in progress and may not yet reflect consensus on the rules for pull requests.'''
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| QEMU welcomes contributions of code, but we generally expect these to be
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| sent as simple patch emails to the mailing list (see our
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| page on [[Contribute/SubmitAPatch|submitting a patch]] for more details).
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| Generally only existing submaintainers of a tree will need to
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| submit pull requests, although occasionally for a large patch
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| series we might ask a submitter to send a pull request. This
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| page documents our recommendations on pull requests for those people.
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| '''Resend the patches with the pull request''' as emails which are
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| threaded as follow-ups to the pull request itself. The simplest
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| way to do this is to use <code>git format-patch --cover-letter</code>
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| to create the emails, and then edit the cover letter to include
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| the pull request details that <code>git request-pull</code> outputs.
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| '''Use PULL as the subject line tag''' in both the cover letter
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| and the retransmitted patch mails (for example, by using
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| <code>--subject-prefix=PULL</code> in your <code>git format-patch</code>
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| command). This helps people to filter in or out the resulting emails
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| (especially useful if they are only CC'd on one email out of the set).
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| '''Each patch must have your own Signed-off-by: line''' as well as
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| that of the original author if the patch was not written by you.
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| This is because with a pull request you're now indicating that the
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| patch has passed via you rather than directly from the original author.
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| '''Don't forget to add Reviewed-by: and Acked-by: lines'''. When other
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| people have reviewed the patches you're putting in the pull request, make
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| sure you've copied their signoffs across. (If you use
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| [https://github.com/aliguori/patches Anthony's patches tool] to add
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| patches from email directly to your git repo it will include the tags
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| automatically; if you're updating patches manually or in some other
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| way you'll need to edit the commit messages by hand.)
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| '''Don't send pull requests for code that hasn't passed review'''.
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| A pull request says these patches are ready to go into QEMU now,
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| so they must have passed the standard code review processes.
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| In particular if you've corrected issues in one round of code review,
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| you need to send your fixed patch series as normal to the list;
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| you can't put it in a pull request until it's gone through.
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| (Extremely trivial fixes may be OK to just fix in passing, but
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| if in doubt err on the side of not.)
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| '''Test before sending'''. This is an obvious thing to say, but
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| make sure everything builds (including that it compiles at each
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| step of the patch series) and that "make check" passes before
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| sending out the pull request. As a submaintainer you're one of QEMU's
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| lines of defense against bad code, so double check the details.
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| '''All pull requests must be signed'''. Starting in December of 2013, only signed pull requests will be accepted. If your key is not already signed by members of the QEMU community, you should make arrangements to attend the KeySigningParty2013 at KVM Forum or make alternative arrangements to have your key signed by an attendee. Key signing requires meeting another community member *in person* so please make appropriate arrangements.
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