Re: rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem maintainerpreference tool

From: Mark Brown
Date: Tue Nov 16 2010 - 10:04:59 EST


On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 06:51:17AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:

> Maybe add a new MAINTAINERS section line something like:
> "C: CommitSubjectGrammarStyle"
> where CommitSubjectGrammarStyle is something more
> information rich than "style 1", "style 2".

Something printfish would seem reasonable?

> Also, what would you expect the output to be when a single
> patch modified files from 2 subsystems that use different
> styles?

The traditional thing is "ThingX/ThingY: blah" but as with anything else
you need to be sensible.
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