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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: jidanni@jidanni.org, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-format-patch patch
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:42:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vzlitho1o.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081218083515.GB29356@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:35:15 -0500")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> ... Besides the format not being applicable by regular git tools:
>
>  - there is no commit message describing the changes, nor the reasoning
>    behind them
>
>  - it was not sent to the maintainer (who does read the list, but does
>    not always read every message).

Actually, it would probably be a good idea not to send your first patch to
me and instead to request for comments from the list ;-)n

The worst offence of the message was the choice of bad Subject that
strongly encouraged anyone to skip it.  Consider:

	Subject: [PATCH] document "format-patch --in-reply-to" better

or something like that.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-18  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-17 20:53 git-format-patch patch jidanni
2008-12-17 21:55 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-12-18  8:35 ` Jeff King
2008-12-18  8:42   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-12-19 19:12     ` [PATCH] Clarify git-format-patch --in-reply-to jidanni
2008-12-19 21:51       ` Nanako Shiraishi
2008-12-19 22:22         ` Miklos Vajna
2008-12-19 23:07           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-20  0:20             ` [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: mention the usage of real name in Signed-off-by: lines Miklos Vajna
2008-12-20  0:39               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-20  0:52                 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-12-19 22:27         ` [PATCH] Clarify git-format-patch --in-reply-to jidanni
2008-12-19 22:33           ` Miklos Vajna
2008-12-19 23:20             ` just can't live without a user.name jidanni
2008-12-20  0:08               ` Miklos Vajna
2008-12-20  0:18                 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-20  0:36                 ` jidanni
2008-12-19 22:01       ` [PATCH] Clarify git-format-patch --in-reply-to Bernt Hansen

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