Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:15:59 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/8] Documentation: remove 'mach' from dontdiff file |
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On 03/30/2012 03:39 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote: >> From: H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com> >> >> Documentation: remove mach from dontdiff file > > Grr. > > Most of these patches have the same stupid problem: why the *hell* do > you repeat the single-line top-level description in both the Subject > line and the body of the email? It only results in stupid duplicate > lines in the commit logs. > > This is a disease. I don't know who the heck started doing it, but > it's WRONG. It's stupid. What broken piece-of-shit tool is it that > does this braindamage? > > Fix it. Stop sending these broken commit messages to people. > > I'm grumpy, yes, because this is a common problem. I see it all over > the place, and it makes our commit logs look f*cking retarded. > > If you absolutely need to repeat the subject line in the body of the > email, do it together with the author line, and mark it as such, ie do > this: > > From: H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com> > Subject: Documentation: remove mach from dontdiff file > > so that git sees that it's a repeat of the subject line. Don't just > put it in the body as another stupid repeat.
I see. Thanks for the info.
Shall I resend all of these?
-- ~Randy
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