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docs/submitting patches: add git tips 

v2: [Emil Velikov]
 - Add the shorthand git send-email -vX
 - Move to submittingpatches.html
 - Add to the TOC.

v3: [Emil Velikov]
 - Use @~8 instead of HEAD~8 (Nicolai)

Cc: Timothy Arceri <t_arceri@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Paul <brianp@vmware.com> (v1)
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<li><a href="#reviewing">Reviewing Patches</a>
<li><a href="#nominations">Nominating a commit for a stable branch</a>
<li><a href="#criteria">Criteria for accepting patches to the stable branch</a>
<li><a href="#gittips">Git tips</a>
</ul>
<h2 id="guidelines">Basic guidelines</h2>
@ -317,6 +318,25 @@ be rejected:
regression that is unaacceptable for the stable branch.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="gittips">Git tips</h2>
<ul>
<li>Test for build breakage between patches e.g last 8 commits.
<pre>
git rebase -i --exec="make -j4" HEAD~8
</pre>
<li>Sets the default mailing address for your repo.
<pre>
git config --local sendemail.to mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org
</pre>
<li> Add version to subject line of patch series in this case for the last 8
commits before sending.
<pre>
git send-email --subject-prefix="PATCH v4" HEAD~8
git send-email -v4 @~8 # shorter version, inherited from git format-patch
</pre>
</ul>
</div>
</body>