Re: Changelog quality

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 13 January 2010 06:29:07 pm Alan Stern wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Stefan Richter wrote:
> 
> > If it was by mistake, inclusion of the find-and-replace script into the
> > patch posting *after the --- delimiter* might have increased the chance
> > that a patch reviewer becomes aware of a possible error source
> > (inadequate match patterns...).  So that could be useful during review
> > before commit, but not so much if the change is revisited some time
> > after commit.
> 
> Somewhat tangentially, it's worth mentioning that the comments
> appearing after the "---" delimiter exist only in the original patch
> submissions, not in the final commits.  Hence they are not available to
> anyone reviewing the changes after acceptance.
> 
> It would be nice if there was a way to link automatically a git commit
> to an archived copy of the email message in which it was originally 
> submitted.

AFAIK x86 folks are using "LKML-Reference:" tag with the message ID for
exactly that purpose (just do 'git log arch/x86' to find such commits).

BTW Personally I see nothing wrong with too verbose commit changelogs,
too sparse changelogs are a much bigger annoyance..

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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz