Re: [PATCH resend] SubmittingPatches: mention the git contacts command

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Apr 11, 2018, 20:42 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cTQxHPufoB2rCnmLQoLDkCHNeOO477+qwBJ5qseVro4vg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180411202000.31086-1-t.gummerer@gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 4:20 PM, Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Instead of just mentioning 'git blame' and 'git shortlog', which make it
> quite hard for new contributors to pick out the appropriate list of
> people to cc on their patch series, mention the 'git contacts' utility,
> which makes it much easier to get a reasonable list of contacts for a
> change.
>
> This should help new contributors pick out a reasonable cc list by
> simply using a single command.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
> ---
>
> I've originally sent this at <20180316213323.GC2224@hank>, during an
> the rc period.  Eric had some comments, which I interpreted as being
> okay with the change (hope I'm not mistaken there :)).  As I still
> think this would be an improvement for new contributors, I'm resending
> it here.

I don't think you misinterpreted my response. Your answers to my review questions seemed satisfactory, so I wasn't expecting any changes.