Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 May 2003 09:57:26 +0100 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][ATM] assorted he driver cleanup |
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On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 08:01:01PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> BTW, can you use more consistent changeset messages? I always > at least allude to what is being changed, for example I changed > all of your messages to be of the form: > > [ATM]: Blah blah blah in HE driver. > > This tells the reader that: > > 1) It's an ATM change. > 2) It's to the HE driver. > 3) The change made was "Blah blah blah" :-)
I'd also add... 4) keep the first line a brief oneliner summary, as it gets truncated when Linus generates the shortlog.
A number of people (self included) have adopted this impromptu 'standard' for bk comments. Maybe it should get documented in Documentation/BK-usage/bk-kernel-howto.txt
Dave
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