From: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [OT] CC:s in commits (was: [PATCH 1/2] socfpga: Adding Scan Manager driver)
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 23:07:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140113230701.6c8464b2@lilith> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140113210815.2724A3821F6@gemini.denx.de>
Hi Wolfgang,
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 22:08:15 +0100, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Albert,
>
> In message <20140113173924.684ce548@lilith> you wrote:
> >
> > > Actually these Cc will be helpful when using git send-email. It will
> > > auto cc to these mailing list when the patch is send out for review
> > > (instead entering the names manually every time). Thanks
> >
> > That is useful to the sender, but useless to anyone else.
>
> This is not correct. It is also an indicatioin who was explicitly
> addressed when the patch was submitted, so you can later still see
> from the commit message who was invited to commend and refrained from
> doing so. This may help a lot in discussions like "but I never had a
> chance to see this patch".
>
> Please keep these. The are really useful.
Thanks Wolfgang. I hadn't considered this 'traceability' aspect -- I
haven't been involved in enough such discussions, obviously.
Chin Liang See: apologies for the noise.
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
Amicalement,
--
Albert.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-13 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-13 17:34 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] socfpga: Adding Scan Manager driver Chin Liang See
2014-01-13 8:34 ` [U-Boot] [OT] CC:s in commits (was: [PATCH 1/2] socfpga: Adding Scan Manager driver) Albert ARIBAUD
2014-01-13 14:34 ` Chin Liang See
2014-01-13 16:39 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2014-01-13 17:41 ` Chin Liang See
2014-01-13 21:09 ` Wolfgang Denk
2014-01-13 22:20 ` Chin Liang See
2014-01-13 21:08 ` Wolfgang Denk
2014-01-13 21:14 ` Dinh Nguyen
2014-01-13 22:07 ` Albert ARIBAUD [this message]
2014-01-13 22:20 ` Chin Liang See
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