From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Subject: Re: rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem
 maintainer preference tool
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:21:02 -0800
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Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:55:31 +0000 Mark Brown wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 08:35:22PM +0100, Florian Mickler wrote:
> 
> > Hehe, I know that I wouldn't want to hand edit every autogenerated patch
> > people throw at me... What about just dropping everything before the
> > last "]" or ":" and putting an autogenerated prefix before it in a
> > pre-commit hook on your side?  
> 
> > That should work most of the time... don't know... maybe other
> 
> It's the most of the time bit that worries me, I'm generally reluctant
> to script things like this when the scripts aren't very widely used and
> it's a pain to get hooks distributed over all my systems and working for
> all the things I need to apply patches for.
> 
> From my point of view my current approach is actually working pretty
> well with most submitters, even people doing similar janitorial stuff.

I don't know what you asked Joe to change, but asking someone to use
the documented canonical patch format:

<quote>
The canonical patch subject line is:

    Subject: [PATCH 001/123] subsystem: summary phrase
</quote>

should be fine.  And there is no need for printf-ish templates
for this in MAINTAINERS either.

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~Randy
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