Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Daniel Phillips wrote:
In that case, a nice refinement is to put the sequence number at the end of
the subject line so patch sequences don't interleave:
No. That makes it unsortable, and also much harder to pick put which part
of the subject line is the explanation, and which part is just metadata
for me.
So my prefernce is _overwhelmingly_ for the format that Andrew uses (which
is partly explained by the fact that I am used to it, but also by the fact
that I've asked for Andrew to make trivial changes to match my usage).
That canonical format is:
Subject: [PATCH 001/123] [<area>:] <explanation>
together with the first line of the body being a
From: Original Author <[email protected]>
Nod. For future reference, people can refer to
http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html
and/or
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt
Jeff
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