Re: [PATCH 1/9] archimport: first, make sure it still compiles

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Nov 24, 2005, 18:54 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511241051170.13959@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051124074739.GB4789@mail.yhbt.net>

Eric,
 I don't know about Junio, but if I were him, I'd have preferred that all 
your patches had a

	archimport: ..

prefix in the subject line, not just the first one.

For example, if you just merge the patches as-is now, and then look at the end result with gitk (or any of the tools that show the shortlog format: just the first line of the commit), you get explanations like

	fix -t tmpdir switch

which is clearly _correct_, but it's much nicer if they show which area was implied, ie

	archimport: fix -t tmpdir switch

so that you can tell from the shortlog whether it was a "global" change, or somethign that affected a specific program.

Just a suggestion,

		Linus

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