From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 03:55:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MyFirstContribution: Document --range-diff option when writing v2
Message-ID: <9551fbe4-255b-774b-d00d-40f5330f70c9@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cSHSSuE6ovPN+XVRDhNU8WD+XzuH0gLzupNZiN1QLGz9A@mail.gmail.com>

On 14/09/21 10.46, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> Not so. Anyone who does any serious amount of review on this project
> finds it tremendously helpful to have both a prose description of the
> changes ("Changes since v1..." plus a link to the previous submission)
> and a mechanical range-diff or interdiff. A range-diff (or interdiff)
> is especially important to provide reviewers with context which they
> might have forgotten since the previous version of a patch series was
> posted, which can matter since it's so easy to forget specifics even
> about one's own review if enough time has passed or if reviewing a
> large number of unrelated submissions. A range-diff or interdiff also
> helps a reviewer determine at-a-glance whether or not earlier review
> comments have been addressed without having to laboriously re-read
> each and every patch.
> 

So will range-diff be mandatory or optional?

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