Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Warn on empty commit log bodies

[Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 06:33:23PM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:

> This really surprises me.  ^Subject: .+$ is the title of the log and
> thereby its first part.  Also, I don't see a connection to git.  I
> manage patches with quilt and never loose patch titles.  I still think
> you should count ^Subject: .+$ too if you want to check for presence of
> a changelog.

I believe the issue is the UI of a MUA - the subject line of a mail is
normally presented separately to the body and isn't always as
immediately prominent as the body so it's harder work to look at it.
This is sensible for e-mail since the general style is that the subject
line shouldn't be required in order to comprehend what the message is
about but that's exactly what's happening when a one line changelog is
e-mailed.

The connection with git is that it doesn't really draw a similar
distinction so the issue isn't as immediately obvious when you're
working within it.