[parted-devel] [PATCH] Fix gpt end of disk handling

[Phillip Susi]

On 1/3/2012 3:03 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Thanks for the patch.  I like the sound of it.
> Would you please write a NEWS entry for it?
> Also, this will require a test to exercise the new behavior.

I'm a little unsure how to write such a test.  Testing the grown disk 
part is easy, but testing the backup in the wrong place part requires 
manually munging the backup location.  I suppose I could intentionally 
break parted and use it to build a hand crafted image file to test on, 
but I don't see a directory with pre-created images for testing.  Would 
this be acceptable?

> Also, please run this in your parted clone directories,
>
>    git config format.signoff true
>
> That arranges to suppress those Signed-off-by lines.
> When you're the Author, an identical Signed-off-by line is just clutter.

I always thought so too, but the guys on lkml want it as some sort of 
indicator that yes, you're ok with the code being gpl ( I'm submitting a 
patch aren't I? ), so I got in the habit of adding -s to format-patch. 
I'll not bother from now on for parted.