From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 44/44] sound/soc/codecs: Remove unnecessary semicolons
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:52:53 -0800
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On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 19:34 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:14:18AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 19:07 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > I'd suggest using pattern matching to look up the
> > > rules for generating the prefixes (it's pretty much entirely prefixes)
> > > in the same way you're handling figuring out who to mail - that'd
> > > probably cover it in an automatable fashion.
> > Publish a tool that works and I'll use it.
> It appears your scripts are already hooked into get_maintainers.pl which
> would seem the obvious place to do this?  Sadly I don't do perl, though
> it looks like you're doing pretty much all the work on that anyway.

Sadly, no it's not the right place.

That script just generates cc email addresses
for pre-formatted commit patches.

It'd have to be a script that modifies the git commit subject line
to the taste of the subsystem maintainer.

Right now, I use a commit script that's something like:

#!/bin/bash
echo "$1: Remove unnecessary semicolons" > msg
echo >> msg
#cat >> msg <<EOF
#Unnecessary semicolons should not exist.
#EOF
git commit -s -F msg $1

There could be a modification to $1 (path)
or some such.

Maybe a script like
./scripts/convert_commit_subject_to_subsystem_maintainer_taste
or something.

Care to write one in sh/bash/perl/python/c/ocaml/c#?

As far as I know, the only subsystem pedants^H^H^H^H^Hople
that care much about the commit subject style are
arch/x86 and sound.

I can understand the desire of these subsystem maintainers
to have a consistent style.  I think though that requiring
a subject header style without providing more than a
general guideline is a but much.

I'd use any other automated tool you want to provide.

cheers, Joe