Re: [Patch 0/6] Bind Mount Extensions 0.06

[Herbert Poetzl]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 08:06:16PM -0800, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 07:51:02PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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
> ...

well, okay, that is in the comment at the start
of the patch, (because it sometimes is rather lengthy)
but I'll try to add something like a short version to
the subject in the future ...

thanks for the input!
Herbert

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