From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de
Cc: adi@hexapodia.org, julia@diku.dk, nm127@freemail.hu,
david.vrabel@csr.com, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cocci@diku.dk
Subject: Re: Changelog quality
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:54:45 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100115.005445.263291449.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B502C6B.7000802@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:50:51 +0100
> David Miller wrote:
>> And likewise here, I want to see what the hell found the bug by
>> reading the changelog message.
>
> Coccinelle found it. In contrast to parsers like sparse, it had to be
> programmed to do so. If you want to repeat that process, you have to
> get coccinelle and the script. Both can be found quickly without having
> them both in the SCM.
I still don't see how this can argue for not putting the script into
the commit message.
And you overstate how "easily" the script can be found.
What button do I push in gitk when viewing a commit to find the
script?
If I have to go out of the tool, that's the beginning down the long
road of potential distractions.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-15 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-12 7:49 [PATCH] uwb: make USB device id constant Németh Márton
2010-01-12 16:10 ` David Vrabel
2010-01-12 16:57 ` Németh Márton
2010-01-13 14:59 ` Changelog quality (was Re: [PATCH] uwb: make USB device id constant) Stefan Richter
2010-01-13 15:38 ` Julia Lawall
2010-01-13 17:06 ` Changelog quality Stefan Richter
2010-01-13 17:29 ` Alan Stern
2010-01-13 17:44 ` Greg KH
2010-01-13 18:04 ` Alan Stern
2010-01-13 19:52 ` Greg KH
2010-01-14 5:24 ` Németh Márton
2010-01-14 6:05 ` Julia Lawall
2010-01-14 8:07 ` Stefan Richter
2010-01-14 8:26 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-01-13 19:19 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-01-13 17:49 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2010-01-13 18:22 ` Stefan Richter
2010-01-15 1:03 ` Changelog quality (was Re: [PATCH] uwb: make USB device id constant) Andy Isaacson
2010-01-15 8:13 ` Stefan Richter
2010-01-15 8:24 ` Changelog quality David Miller
2010-01-15 8:50 ` Stefan Richter
2010-01-15 8:54 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-01-15 9:17 ` Stefan Richter
2010-01-15 9:22 ` David Miller
2010-01-15 9:43 ` Julia Lawall
2010-01-15 9:49 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-01-15 10:05 ` Julia Lawall
2010-01-15 11:08 ` Mark Brown
2010-01-15 12:06 ` Julia Lawall
2010-01-15 12:44 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-01-15 13:10 ` Julia Lawall
2010-01-15 12:45 ` Stefan Richter
2010-01-15 12:52 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-01-15 13:39 ` Mark Brown
2010-01-15 16:49 ` SmPL scripts into build environment? (was: Changelog quality) Németh Márton
2010-01-18 10:58 ` SmPL scripts into build environment? Michal Marek
2010-01-18 11:22 ` Julia Lawall
2010-01-15 13:28 ` Changelog quality Stefan Richter
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