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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Docs: SubmittingPatches: Clarify convention for git commit references
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 09:36:08 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150522093608.420edaf7@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150521155954.9522.33952.stgit@bhelgaas-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>

On Thu, 21 May 2015 10:59:54 -0500
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> wrote:

> Clarify the convention for commit references in changelogs so it matches
> what checkpatch suggests; see d311cd44545f ("checkpatch: add test for
> commit id formatting style in commit log").
> 
> I chose a different example to make the ("") around the description more
> obvious.

In general the change is fine, and I agree with the change in example.
You took out the reasons for use of 12 characters, though, and I'd rather
not do that.  People like to know why a particular practice makes
sense...  Can I get a version that preserves that text?

Thanks,

jon

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-22 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-21 15:59 [PATCH] Docs: SubmittingPatches: Clarify convention for git commit references Bjorn Helgaas
2015-05-21 16:19 ` Joe Perches
2015-05-21 16:44   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2015-05-21 17:04     ` Joe Perches
2015-05-21 19:03       ` Josh Stone
2015-05-22 15:36 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]

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