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DateThu, 07 Apr 2005 23:35:24 -0400
FromJeff Garzik <>
SubjectRe: Kernel SCM saga..
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> 
>>In that case, a nice refinement is to put the sequence number at the end of 
>>the subject line so patch sequences don't interleave:
> 
> 
> No. That makes it unsortable, and also much harder to pick put which part 
> of the subject line is the explanation, and which part is just metadata 
> for me.
> 
> So my prefernce is _overwhelmingly_ for the format that Andrew uses (which 
> is partly explained by the fact that I am used to it, but also by the fact 
> that I've asked for Andrew to make trivial changes to match my usage).
> 
> That canonical format is:
> 
> 	Subject: [PATCH 001/123] [<area>:] <explanation>
> 
> together with the first line of the body being a
> 
> 	From: Original Author <origa@email.com>


Nod.  For future reference, people can refer to

http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html
	and/or
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt

	Jeff


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