Re: [PATCH v2] Place cache.h at the first place to match general rule

> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Sun He <sunheehnus@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Sun He <sunheehnus@gmail.com>
>> Helped-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
>
> Footers should follow a temporal order. For instance:
>
> 1. Duy helped you.
> 2. You revised your patch based upon his input.
> 3. You signed off before submitting the patch.
>
> Hence, your Signed-off-by: should follow Helped-by:.
>

>> ---
>>  "PATCH v2" Fix the spelling bug of general in subject as is suggested
>>  by brain m.calson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
>
> There are two type of information you want to convey to readers:
>
> 1. Explanation and justification of the change itself. This is
> recorded for all time in the project history as the commit message. It
> is placed above the "---" line.
>
> 2. Commentary related to this version / submission of the patch which
> is not likely to be helpful or meaningful to people reading the
> "official" project history via the commit messages. It is placed below
> the "---" line.
>
> Explaining what you changed since the previous version of the patch,
> as you do above, is a good thing. It's not meaningful once the patch
> is officially accepted into the project; it's only meaningful to
> people following the progression of the patch on the mailing list, so
> it definitely belongs below the "---" line, as you did here.
>
> However...
>
>>  The general rule is if cache.h or git-compat-util.h is included,
>>  it is the first #include.
>
> This information explains the patch's purpose, thus it is relevant to
> the project history. It belongs above the "---" line.
>

>>  I parsed all the source files, and find many files start with builtin.h.
>>  And git-compat-util.h is the first in it. So they don't need any change.
>
> This could go either way. It tells how you arrived at this version of
> the patch (relevant below "---"), but also explains why the patch does
> not have to touch additional files (relevant above "---"). It's
> probably okay to leave it below "---".
>
>>  sigchain.c and test-sigchain.c are started with "sigchain.h"
>>  I checked sigchain.h, and it didn't import any bug.
>>  But to keep consistant with general rule, we should take this patch.
>
> Commentary suitable for below "---".
>
>>  Thanks.
>>
>>  sigchain.c      | 2 +-
>>  test-sigchain.c | 2 +-
>>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/sigchain.c b/sigchain.c
>> index 1118b99..faa375d 100644
>> --- a/sigchain.c
>> +++ b/sigchain.c
>> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>> -#include "sigchain.h"
>>  #include "cache.h"
>> +#include "sigchain.h"
>>
>>  #define SIGCHAIN_MAX_SIGNALS 32
>>
>> diff --git a/test-sigchain.c b/test-sigchain.c
>> index 42db234..e499fce 100644
>> --- a/test-sigchain.c
>> +++ b/test-sigchain.c
>> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>> -#include "sigchain.h"
>>  #include "cache.h"
>> +#include "sigchain.h"
>>
>>  #define X(f) \
>>  static void f(int sig) { \
>> --
>> 1.9.0.138.g2de3478.dirty