[Kde-hardware-devel] patch for reviewboard

[Alex Fiestas]

On Wednesday 05 December 2012 01:09:31 Lisa Vitolo wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> I tried to post my patch on the reviewboard following the instructions
> on techbase. I generated the patch file locally, but when I upload it
> on the KDE reviewboard I get this error:
>   error: unable to find e3ab51f82bbd205f5be197bfd40aebddee5b07de
> fatal: git cat-file e3ab51f82bbd205f5be197bfd40aebddee5b07de: bad file
> Looking at this file with git cat-file in my local repo I found out
> this is a pre-existent Solid file I modified. If I replace it with the
> actual version currently found on anongit, the error just appears
> again for some other file.
> 
> In addition, I had a look at the patch file with kompare and it looks
> fine. My guess is that since all my development took place in a
> separate repository, git started assigning different SHA hashes to my
> files, especially when I did "git pull --rebase" to sync my branch
> with master, with all the merges that usually follow in these cases.
> But the reviewboard still looks at your anongit repository for
> confirmation, and it doesn't find it. Or (more likely) something went
> wrong during one of those merges. Sadly my git's expertise stops here
> (and also google doesn't provide many solutions), any clue on how to
> proceed? :)
Since your patch is super big, I'd say you should post here a branch that is 
mergeable with kdelibs 4.10 so we can review it. Also having the information 
in commit-base will help.