From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:42:43 GMT
Subject: Re: git-format-patch patch
Message-ID: <7vzlitho1o.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081218083515.GB29356@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> ... Besides the format not being applicable by regular git tools:
>
>  - there is no commit message describing the changes, nor the reasoning
>    behind them
>
>  - it was not sent to the maintainer (who does read the list, but does
>    not always read every message).

Actually, it would probably be a good idea not to send your first patch to
me and instead to request for comments from the list ;-)n

The worst offence of the message was the choice of bad Subject that
strongly encouraged anyone to skip it.  Consider:

	Subject: [PATCH] document "format-patch --in-reply-to" better

or something like that.