From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] vfs patches, part 1
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:31:49 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0812310930360.5086@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0812310905580.5086@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> There's tons of unnecessary "[PATCH, v5]" things in those commit headers,
> and that seems to mean that you intentionally pass the "--keep" flag to
> git to keep the crap in subject lines, rather than let git clean it up for
> you.
>
> Git by default will try to clean things up, so you literally have done
> extra work to make your commits look like shit!
The alternative, of course, is that you're using some _really_ old git
version, or that you have your own scripts that create the commits by
hand. If so, please just update.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-31 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-31 7:43 [git pull] vfs patches, part 1 Al Viro
2008-12-31 17:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-31 17:31 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2008-12-31 17:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-31 20:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-31 23:10 ` Al Viro
2009-01-01 0:05 ` Linus Torvalds
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-06-12 1:45 Al Viro
2009-06-12 3:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-12 3:38 ` Al Viro
2009-06-16 16:19 ` hooanon05
2009-06-16 17:31 ` Al Viro
2009-06-18 14:30 ` hooanon05
2009-06-20 0:29 ` Linus Torvalds
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