Am Dienstag, den 12.04.2011, 09:43 +0100 schrieb Chris Wilson:
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:34:41 +0200, Paul Menzel 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, den 12.04.2011, 06:51 +0100 schrieb Chris Wilson:
> > > This fixes a regression from 7b334fcb45b757ffb093696ca3de1b0c8b4a33f1.
> > 
> > To quote Mark Brown [1].
> > 
> >         Always include the subject line of the commit in patches -
> >         readers are unlikely to have memorised commit IDs.
> 
> Does it really help to include the subject as well? I suppose it will help
> in the case where the patch has been cherry-picked into other trees,
> stable for instance. However, I truly didn't expect anyone to remember the
> original commit as the first thing I do is to read through the identified
> commit to try and understand the subsequent patch in context.

In my opinion the reason is especially the first one you mentioned.


Thanks,

Paul

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