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Support dependency relations between patch series

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start at the git pw patch apply and git pw series apply entry points, and review related issue #71 for existing context. Done means Depends-on tags in patches or cover letters are collected in listed order, translated to inter-series dependencies, and applied automatically without recursive traversal.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

The DPDK project has defined syntax for a "Depends-on" tag. A contributor can add this label to their patch or cover letter if it depends on another patch or series that has not yet been applied to the target branch.

The syntax for this tag and where it appears in a patch file is as follows:

... MIME headers and such go here ...

Some commit message

Signed-off-by: someone
---
Depends-on: patch-##### ("title of patch")
Depends-on: series-##### ("title of series")

... git diff summary goes here ...

---
... diff goes here ...

These tags may also appear in a cover letter for a series.

There can be multiple of these tags defined with differing values. An implementation is intended to collect them into a list. When applying a patch which has these tags, they should be applied in the order listed in the patch file. This process is not recursive, as in if the dependents of a patch have additional dependents, those are not applied.

All dependencies are translated to inter-series dependencies. As in, if a patch a in series A references a patch b in series B, then we can infer that series A depends on series B. Same thing if a patch a depends on series B.

The ask is for, when running git pw patch apply or git pw series apply , the command will scan for these dependent patches or series and apply them automatically as described above.

Related: https://github.com/getpatchwork/git-pw/issues/71

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