Re: Git commit process question.

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 03:46:14PM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 09:51:21AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 04:20:41PM -0700, akuster808 wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On 4/1/19 4:02 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2019-04-01 at 15:33 -0700, akuster808 wrote:
> > > >> Hello,
> > > >>
> > > >> I have noticed a large number of git commits with no header
> > > >> information being accepted.
> > > > Can you be more specific about what "no header information" means? You
> > > > mean a shortlog and no full log message?
> > > Commits with just a "subject" and signoff. No additional information
> > > 
> > > We tend to reference back to how the kernel does things.
> > > 
> > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html
> > > These two sections in particular.
> > > 
> > > 
> > >     2) Describe your changes
> > > 
> > > Describe your problem. Whether your patch is a one-line bug fix or 5000
> > > lines of a new feature, there must be an underlying problem that
> > > motivated you to do this work. Convince the reviewer that there is a
> > > problem worth fixing and that it makes sense for them to read past the
> > > first paragraph.
> > >...
> > 
> > The kernel does not have "upgrade foo to the latest upstream version" commits.
> > 
> > With the Automatic Upgrade Helper this is a semi-automatic task, and 
> > most of the time there is no specific motivation other than upgrading
> > to the latest upstream version.
> 
> But since that's just filling in a template the body can also be a
> template perhaps with useful AUH data (run at ... by ... ?) ?

That would be more trivial than useful.

And so far noone has stated any actual problem that would be solved
by adding such a new requirement.

> Tom

cu
Adrian

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