From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756260Ab0AMSXS (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:23:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756234Ab0AMSXR (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:23:17 -0500 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:55455 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755659Ab0AMSXR (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:23:17 -0500 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <4B4E0F76.4040802@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:22:46 +0100 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20100102 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz CC: Alan Stern , Julia Lawall , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?N=E9meth_M=E1rton?= , David Vrabel , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, LKML , cocci@diku.dk Subject: Re: Changelog quality References: <201001131849.42328.bzolnier@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201001131849.42328.bzolnier@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > BTW Personally I see nothing wrong with too verbose commit changelogs, > too sparse changelogs are a much bigger annoyance.. Verbosity on its own does not ensure that the important bits happen to be in the log though. If somebody is deliberately verbose, please structure the message so that the important bits can still be quickly spotted. (Don't waste people's time.) However, a submission which can be adequately changelogged by one or two lines, coupled with something like 30 lines of "and here is the script that generated it for me" is just plain strange. How is that fitting for the final immutable history? It's just noise. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==-=- ---= -==-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/