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Patman

Patman patch manager

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Patman is a command-line tool that automates the boring parts of preparing and sending patches by email, in the style used by the U-Boot and Linux kernel projects. It:

  • creates patches directly from a git branch;

  • cleans them up by removing unwanted tags and inserting a cover letter;

  • runs checkpatch.pl and the project’s checks before anything is sent;

  • looks up the maintainers to Cc, and emails the series out;

  • tracks series in a local database and integrates with Patchwork to gather review tags and follow up on comments.

Installation

Install the latest release from PyPI:

pip install patch-manager

Optional features are available as extras:

pip install patch-manager[review]   # patch review using a Claude agent
pip install patch-manager[gmail]    # Gmail drafts of reviews and replies
pip install patch-manager[all]      # everything

The patman command is then on your path. It is also installed as patch-manager, which is the only name the Debian package provides, since Debian already has an unrelated patman command.

Quick start

From a git branch containing the commits you want to send:

patman              # create, check and email the series
patman -n           # dry run: create and check, but do not send

See patman --full-help for the complete manual, or the documentation linked below.

Documentation

The documentation is on Read the Docs, at https://patman.readthedocs.io/ Start with the guide, which goes through using patman step by step with a real U-Boot series:

https://patman.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/index.html

There is a short introduction, with a demo, at https://deinde.dev/patman/

Development

Run the test suite from a checkout:

pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .
patman test

The suite is self-contained: a pinned checkpatch.pl and its helper files live in scripts/, and u_boot_pylib is installed from PyPI as u-boot-pylib, so no surrounding U-Boot source is required.

Build the documentation locally with:

pip install -r doc/requirements.txt
make -C doc html

The rendered HTML is written to doc/_build/html.

License

GPL-2.0-or-later. See the LICENSE file for the full text.

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