From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756475Ab1JYL44 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:56:56 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:43662 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756428Ab1JYL4y (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:56:54 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:56:34 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Linus Torvalds Cc: David Miller , "Eric W. Biederman" , Mikulas Patocka , akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT] Networking Message-ID: <20111025115634.GA12128@suse.de> References: <20111025.063206.2273357152859701628.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 01:46:11PM +0200, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Greg - please fix your crazy tools. Look at this: > > git log fs/sysfs/dir.c > > and tell me why the f*&% you have commit messages like this: > > commit 4f72c0cab40536a0be501d85ea4918467ab82ad5 > Author: Mikulas Patocka > Date: Mon Jul 25 17:55:57 2011 -0400 > > sysfs: use rb-tree for name lookups > > sysfs: use rb-tree for name lookups The "crazy" tool was using 'git am'. The problem was that I missed the fact that the first line of the patch sent to me duplicated the subject line. It's a really common problem when people generate patches and send them off by email, I just forgot to edit the patches from Mikulas to remove them, my fault, sorry. greg k-h