Re: [PATCH v4] staging: comedi: Improved readability of function comedi_nsamples_left.

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Wed Jun 13 2018 - 15:06:11 EST


On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 08:26:43PM +0200, Chris Opperman wrote:
> Hi Dan/Ian,
>
> Noted your comments regarding additional text, thanks! Just curious whether
> the "scissors" format given at the link below is valid?
>
> https://kernelnewbies.org/PatchTipsAndTricks
>
> It is given as an alternative to placing additional text below the
> cut-off line.
>

Try it yourself. Save your email as email.txt and then
`cat email.txt | git am` and then review the patch with git log -p.

I've seen people do the scissors thing, but I assume the maintainer has
to hand edit the log which we refuse to do.

regards,
dan carpenter