(Old thread, first time I see it though): On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 11:45:28AM +0000, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: > The more we make the process lightweight for contributors, the more work > we make for maintainers. If the contribution is sent correctly, then > ideally, the patch can be applied with just 'git am' by the maintainer.
Almost always the maintainer will want to do "git am" followed by "git commit --amend" *anyway*. It helps if people follow the same format often, but making this a stringent requirement, even before we have experience with it, is just wrong, and does not help anyway. Segher
