Re: Subsystem/prefix in patch submission format

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 03:59:56PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:45:43 +0200
> 
> > >From a pure eye-candy perspective it would be nice to use same format
> > all over.
> > >From Documentation/SubmittingPatches:
> > ------------------
> > 12) The canonical patch format
> > 
> > The canonical patch subject line is:
> > 
> >     Subject: [PATCH 001/123] subsystem: summary phrase
> > --------------
> 
> The patch format specifies things that make no sense
> when the changes gets into the tree.  Especially the
> sequence numbers, which are implied by the changes
> placement in the relative changeset history.

"git am" removes the patch format specifiers when the change are
committed. git applymbox replace the patch format specifier with
[PATCH].

So:
git am        => subsystem: summary phrase
git applymbox => [PATCH] subsystem: summary phrase

Both variants exists because Linus uses the latter to distingush between
what is applied via git tress and what is applied via mail patches.

The Signed-off-by: carries same info btw.

	Sam