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From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Patch format in ext4 patch queue.
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:34:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070924213406.GF4568@petra.dvoda.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46F39DF6.30402@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 04:03:26PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> First line should be
> <subsystem_name>: A single line description of the patch.
> This appear in the subject line of the mail that results from different
> commit list.

 BTW, we use this subject format for util-linux-ng and I have a simple
 python script that generates nice changelogs (for release notes) from
 git log.

 IMHO a changelog [1] that is sorted and grouped by <subsystem_name>
 is better for end-users that output from git-shortlog.

    Karel


 [1] see Changelog section:
    ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.13/v2.13-ReleaseNotes

-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-24 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-21 10:33 Patch format in ext4 patch queue Aneesh Kumar K.V
2007-09-21 11:24 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2007-09-21 11:46 ` Theodore Tso
2007-09-24 21:34 ` Karel Zak [this message]

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