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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Warn on empty commit log bodies
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:18:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090301001829.GA10751@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49A9C252.50204@s5r6.in-berlin.de>

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 12:01:38AM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
> > As I have previously said, that is not the case in reality.  There
> > appears to be substantial sentiment among people handling patches that
> > not having any text in the body of the e-mail makes it harder to handle
> > patches.
> 
> It is indeed a problem
>   - if the patch title alone insufficiently describes the patch
> or
>   - if a patch reviewer believes that it is OK to ignore patch titles.

Worse yet, if we start getting these sorts of entries being returned
by "git log":

------------
ext4: Fix spelling error: successfull

Fix spelling error: successfull

Signed-off-by: "Trivial Patch Submitter" <spelling@nits.org>
------------

Just to shut up checkpatch, I'm going to feel the urge to shake a
checkpatch maintainer warmly by the throat.

Sometimes, all that is needed is:

------------
ext4: Fix spelling error: successfull

Signed-off-by: "Trivial Patch Submitter" <spelling@nits.org>
------------

							- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-01  0:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-27 18:05 [PATCH] checkpatch: Warn on empty commit log bodies Mark Brown
2009-02-28 13:58 ` Stefan Richter
2009-02-28 15:58   ` Mark Brown
2009-02-28 16:14     ` Stefan Richter
2009-02-28 16:46       ` Mark Brown
2009-02-28 17:33         ` Stefan Richter
2009-02-28 17:52           ` Mark Brown
2009-02-28 19:25             ` Stefan Richter
2009-02-28 21:02               ` Mark Brown
2009-02-28 23:01                 ` Stefan Richter
2009-03-01  0:18                   ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2009-03-01  0:46                     ` Mark Brown
2009-03-01  2:53                       ` Theodore Tso
2009-03-02 13:15                         ` Mark Brown
2009-03-02 15:15                           ` Stefan Richter
2009-03-02 16:01                             ` Mark Brown
2009-03-02 18:01                             ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-02 18:24                               ` Mark Brown
2009-03-02 18:34                                 ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-02 18:43                                   ` Theodore Tso
2009-03-02 19:19                                   ` Mark Brown
2009-03-02 19:57                                     ` Theodore Tso
2009-03-02 20:38                                       ` Mark Brown
2009-03-10 18:19                     ` Andy Whitcroft
2009-02-28 17:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-02-28 17:47   ` Mark Brown

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