Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Fri, 8 Jun 2018 17:26:55 -0700 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] libnvdimm for 4.18 |
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On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 5:19 PM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > If I get stuff that looks at all complex at the end of the merge > window, I will just cackle unpleasantly while I press the big 'D' key > on my keyboard.
Side note: looking at what I just pulled, there was close to a D key here too.
Dammit, the top commit in your tree is a merge. And the merge message for that merge is this:
Merge branch 'for-4.18/mcsafe' into libnvdimm-for-next
That's it. One line. That doesn't say anything at all.
That kind of uninformative commit message wouldn't be remotely acceptable for a regular simple one-liner patch.
WHY THE HELL DO PEOPLE CONTINUE TO THINK THAT IT'S OK FOR MERGES?
Dammit. Merges are *more* complex than random usual patches. They need proper commit messages. Yet you have two merges there with absolutely *no* information in the commit message.
If you can't be bothered to write an informative commit message for a merge, you damn well shouldn't do the merge.
It really is that simple.
Linus
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