From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch 0/6] Bind Mount Extensions 0.06
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:06:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050223040616.GN3120@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050222195102.49cf37da.akpm@osdl.org>
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 07:51:02PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> wrote:
> >
> > Please give each patch a unique, descriptive subject.
>
> yup.
>
> > Summarizing what
> > each patch is doing in your 0/n so that reviewers can focus on the
> > bits that are interesting is also helpful.
>
> Actually, that's fairly irritating, because the 0/n contains useful info
> which someone has to go and massage and copy into 1/n.
Certainly, there should be nothing in the summary that isn't already
in the patch itself. What I'm suggesting is more a table of contents:
1/6 move foo to bar so that we can then remove baz
2/6 kill references to baz
...
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Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-23 4:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-22 12:09 Herbert Poetzl
2005-02-23 3:24 ` Matt Mackall
2005-02-23 3:51 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-23 4:06 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2005-02-24 21:04 ` Herbert Poetzl
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