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From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][ATM] assorted he driver cleanup
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 09:57:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030530085726.GA14723@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030529.200101.118622651.davem@redhat.com>

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 08:01:01PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:

 > BTW, can you use more consistent changeset messages?  I always
 > at least allude to what is being changed, for example I changed
 > all of your messages to be of the form:
 > 
 > 	[ATM]: Blah blah blah in HE driver.
 > 
 > This tells the reader that:
 > 
 > 1) It's an ATM change.
 > 2) It's to the HE driver.
 > 3) The change made was "Blah blah blah" :-)

I'd also add...
4) keep the first line a brief oneliner summary, as it
gets truncated when Linus generates the shortlog.
 
A number of people (self included) have adopted this
impromptu 'standard' for bk comments. Maybe it should
get documented in Documentation/BK-usage/bk-kernel-howto.txt

		Dave



  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-30  8:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-29 16:09 [PATCH][ATM] assorted he driver cleanup chas williams
2003-05-29 16:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-29 16:32   ` chas williams
2003-05-29 16:21 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-05-29 16:31   ` chas williams
2003-05-29 17:06     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-05-29 17:12       ` chas williams
2003-05-29 17:36         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-06-01 18:57           ` chas williams
2003-06-01 20:00             ` Alan Cox
2003-06-01 22:58               ` chas williams
2003-06-02  1:42                 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-02  1:47                   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-06-02  2:34                   ` chas williams
2003-06-02 13:50                     ` Alan Cox
2003-06-02  1:32             ` David S. Miller
2003-05-29 18:08   ` chas williams
2003-05-29 18:34     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-05-30  3:01 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-30  8:57   ` Dave Jones [this message]
2003-05-30 13:36     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-30 13:46   ` chas williams
2003-05-30 14:00     ` chas williams
     [not found]       ` <200305301431.h4UEVesG003572@ginger.cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
2003-06-04  4:51         ` David S. Miller
2003-06-01 22:42 ` Francois Romieu
2003-06-18 21:08   ` chas williams
2003-06-19  1:05     ` David S. Miller

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