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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Documentation/00-INDEX notice ecryptfs.txt moved.
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:56:10 -0500 Rob Landley wrote:

> On Friday 31 August 2007 7:10:00 am Satyam Sharma wrote:
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > On Thursday 30 August 2007 2:04:37 pm Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > > Please use the expected (canonical) patch format.
> > > >
> > > > See Documentation/SubmittingPatches:
> > > > 14) The canonical patch format
> > >
> > > from Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
> > > Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
> > >
> > > ecryptfs.txt moved into filesystems, make 00-INDEX follow.
> >
> > That's still not quite right :-) What Randy meant is that the sign-off
> > must come /after/ the patch description:
>
> Randy emailed me about it offline and I updated my wrapper script.
>
> I've always had a bit of a blind spot when it comes to filling out forms (I
> suck at bureaucracy), so I made a script to do it, currently:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> echo "From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>"
> echo

or: echo put_changelog_here

> echo "Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>"
> echo "---"
> echo
> cat $1 | diffstat

cat $1 | diffstat -p1 -w70

> echo
> cat $1
>
> I note that the example uses "From:" but the summary refers to it as
> the "from" line with no capital letter or colon, and unix being case
> sensitive I reproduced the quoted string verbatim. (See "I suck at
> bureaucracy", above.)
>
> > [ All this is not too important, admittedly, but causes least amount of
> > processing time to be wasted on the recipient's end, and also does not
> > confuse scripts that may be used to extract patches (and git commit
> > command-line arguments) from mails automatically. ]
>
> If it's going to be parsed by a script, it might as well be generated by a
> script...

yep.

---
~Randy
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