From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751250AbWFUKmP (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:42:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751365AbWFUKmP (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:42:15 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]:52242 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751250AbWFUKmO (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:42:14 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=aKJPK9135xKruSXVWzmXuCvHOWww87WcPGHFZibYQ21043uZb07zNzpSTfmnYkjP5pttyM5KTjpwEJpk0qO8I470rcYCFzWgatyK9qK/9hrXT5qgDJ7yAIYv4w9MJcIBobwEAgzrJMn5UwcMm+jZa6SvQ1ekttZAb+/JZVQS7kU= Message-ID: <69304d110606210342j3868a2a1v6577be4c192a521c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:42:13 +0200 From: "Antonio Vargas" To: "Stefan Richter" , "Jeff Anderson-Lee" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] suggestion [PATCH N/M] subject lines In-Reply-To: <44991787.7010602@s5r6.in-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <000001c694bb$f9fa3f40$ce2a2080@eecs.berkeley.edu> <44991787.7010602@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 6/21/06, Stefan Richter wrote: > Jeff Anderson-Lee wrote: > > Reading the mailing list with a non-threads compatible > > mail client agent would be made much easier if the > > convention for subject lines for multi-part patches was > > changed to the following: > > > > patch set name [PATCH N/M] patch summary > > > > Then sorting by subject would group all patches for the > > Same patch set together. > > A workaround is to sort by (1.) author + (2.) date. Should help in many > cases. > > > I don't know if these Subject lines are hand generated, or if there > > is software involved that would have to me modified for generating > > and/or parsing them. > > All of it is true. There is at least a built-in command to akpm's patch management scripts which genrates patch-bombs: http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/patch-scripts-0.20/docco.txt thus maybe its descendant "quilt" also does have -- Greetz, Antonio Vargas aka winden of network Every day, every year you have to work you have to study you have to scene.