Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | | Subject | Re: Changelog quality | | Date | Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:49:42 +0100 |
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On Wednesday 13 January 2010 06:29:07 pm Alan Stern wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Stefan Richter wrote: > > > If it was by mistake, inclusion of the find-and-replace script into the > > patch posting *after the --- delimiter* might have increased the chance > > that a patch reviewer becomes aware of a possible error source > > (inadequate match patterns...). So that could be useful during review > > before commit, but not so much if the change is revisited some time > > after commit. > > Somewhat tangentially, it's worth mentioning that the comments > appearing after the "---" delimiter exist only in the original patch > submissions, not in the final commits. Hence they are not available to > anyone reviewing the changes after acceptance. > > It would be nice if there was a way to link automatically a git commit > to an archived copy of the email message in which it was originally > submitted.
AFAIK x86 folks are using "LKML-Reference:" tag with the message ID for exactly that purpose (just do 'git log arch/x86' to find such commits).
BTW Personally I see nothing wrong with too verbose commit changelogs, too sparse changelogs are a much bigger annoyance..
-- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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