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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH,TRIVIAL] Replace Configure with Enable in description of MAXSMP
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:55:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100821195559.GC4760@const.famille.thibault.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=Pha8jRFhr+kQfh9doKZDW-=VHq2KqNxXaq6ts@mail.gmail.com>

Linus Torvalds, le Sat 21 Aug 2010 12:45:12 -0700, a écrit :
> What broken patch-generation tools do you use, btw?

Well, git diff actually :) But then editted by hand.

> Nick Piggin has the same problem: the Subject of the patch gets
> repeated as the first line of the body of the thing, which is very
> annoying.

Ah, I didn't realize you scripts include the subject topic too. Maybe it
should be said in SubmittingPatches that the "summary phrase" shouldn't
be repeated in the body.

Samuel

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-21 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-21 19:32 Samuel Thibault
2010-08-21 19:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-08-21 19:55   ` Samuel Thibault [this message]
2010-08-21 20:05     ` Sam Ravnborg
2010-08-21 20:10       ` Samuel Thibault
2010-08-21 20:16       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-08-21 20:27         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-08-24  7:43   ` Nick Piggin

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