On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 04:40:22PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > >> > - there are a non-trivial number of patches for other projects (JGIT, >> > EGIT, StGit, etc). This is somewhat unique to git, where we discuss >> > a lot of related projects on the list. But I wonder if other >> > projects would use subsystems in a similar way (though I guess for >> > the kernel, there are separate subsystems lists, so the "to" or "cc" >> > header becomes the more interesting tag). >> >> The kernel mostly uses "[PATCH] subsystem: ...". Occasionally I see >> "[PATCH somegitrepo ...] ..." when it's necessary to explicitly say >> whose git repo the patch needs to go through, but that's pretty rare. > > We do both. "foo: blah" is for subsystem "foo" of Git itself, but > all-caps "JGIT PATCH" is "this is not even for Git". I don't know that > the kernel really has an equivalent. > > -Peff
[net] and [net-next] are for the *tree* not the subsystem of the tree. net: also means the networking subsystem, but it's different you might have a new feature and say [net-next PATCH v2] net: my awesome new feature. Thanks, Jake
