Re: Changelog quality

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:29:07PM -0500, 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.

Ingo has been doing this on some patches by putting a message-id field
in the signed-off-by area showing what lkml message a patch came from.

See git commit id 6432e734c99ed685e3cad72f7dcae4c65008fcab in Linus's
tree as an example of this.

I have no objection if people want to do this for any patches going
through my tree as well.

thanks,

greg k-h