Re: [GIT PULL] thermal for v5.12-rc1

[Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>]

Hi Linus,

On 22/02/2021 18:44, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 3:54 AM Daniel Lezcano
> <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> Note a set of changes for the qcom adc driver rely on an immutable
>> branch from the iio tree:
> 
> That part is fine, but what _isn't_ great is the merge commit message.
> 
> This is the message in its entirety:
> 
>    "Merge remote-tracking branch
> 'iio-thermal-5.11-rc1/ib-iio-thermal-5.11-rc1' into testing"
> 
> Notice how it doesn't say _anything_ useful.
> 
> Merges are commits, and they should have commit messages with
> *explanation* the same way all regular commits should. In fact, they
> generally should have *more* explanation, since they are fundamentally
> more interesting and subtle than some one-liner obvious bug-fix.
> 
> So this all looks otherwise fine, and I like how you were clearly
> aware of the whole cross-tree merge, and how you let me kn0ow about
> it. I appreciate that part, and I've pulled your branch.
> 
> But I wanted to really take this moment to point out that merge
> commits really should have messages explaining *why* and *what* got
> merged. Not just the technical "I merged that tree".

Thanks for pointing this out, I will take care in the future to give a
better description.

  -- Daniel



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