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From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
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Jeff Garzik wrote:

> (speaking more to the crowd...)
> Changeset comments need to be written as if they stand alone, without
> any other context -- including the author.  A reader should not need to
> know that (for examples) James Simmons hacks on fbdev stuff.

I think it is nice to have the names.  A new kernel
might break something,  It is then nice to know
where to send the bug report. (It is usually, but not
necessarily the maintainer that did it.)

That's why I like a long format, merely with the
_duplicated_ names removed.  I guess people
like to see their name in the changelog too. :-)

Helge Hafting