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

[Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 12:46:19AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> The reason I sent the patch was that sending changelogs like that for
> trivial changes is getting me negative feedback and I'm seeing other
> comments about "unchangeloged patches" on the lists so I'm pretty sure
> it's not just something I'm doing.  I'm not saying I'm always blameless
> here but when people are using terms like like "unchangeloged" it really
> does suggest that one line changelogs are just considered not to have
> changelogs.

Well, I certainly don't have a problem with this.  I in fact get
*really* *annoyed* when I get patch submissions where the subject line
is replicated in the body, since I then have to manually edit the mail
message before I can run "git am" on the mail message.

Who's been complaining?  I can certainly tell you I'll complain in the
opposite direction, but that's because it actually causes me more work
as a maintainer.  If people are kvetching, maybe they should complain
to git mailing list and ask for a different git commit to e-mail
message convention --- but it's really not hard to look at the subject
line.

						- Ted