From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:54:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] archimport: first, make sure it still compiles
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