2014-03-02 12:34 GMT+08:00 Eric Sunshine :
> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Sun He wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Sun He
>> Helped-by: Duy Nguyen
>
> Footers should follow a temporal order. For instance:
>
> 1. Duy helped you.
> 2. You revised your patch based upon his input.
> 3. You signed off before submitting the patch.
>
> Hence, your Signed-off-by: should follow Helped-by:.
>
OK, got it.
Thank you very much.
>> ---
>> "PATCH v2" Fix the spelling bug of general in subject as is suggested
>> by brain m.calson
>
> There are two type of information you want to convey to readers:
>
> 1. Explanation and justification of the change itself. This is
> recorded for all time in the project history as the commit message. It
> is placed above the "---" line.
>
> 2. Commentary related to this version / submission of the patch which
> is not likely to be helpful or meaningful to people reading the
> "official" project history via the commit messages. It is placed below
> the "---" line.
>
> Explaining what you changed since the previous version of the patch,
> as you do above, is a good thing. It's not meaningful once the patch
> is officially accepted into the project; it's only meaningful to
> people following the progression of the patch on the mailing list, so
> it definitely belongs below the "---" line, as you did here.
>
> However...
>
>> The general rule is if cache.h or git-compat-util.h is included,
>> it is the first #include.
>
> This information explains the patch's purpose, thus it is relevant to
> the project history. It belongs above the "---" line.
>
OK, Got it. I will move above the "---" line soon, and I will pay attention
not to make mistakes like this from now on.
Thank you very much.
>> I parsed all the source files, and find many files start with builtin.h.
>> And git-compat-util.h is the first in it. So they don't need any change.
>
> This could go either way. It tells how you arrived at this version of
> the patch (relevant below "---"), but also explains why the patch does
> not have to touch additional files (relevant above "---"). It's
> probably okay to leave it below "---".
>
>> sigchain.c and test-sigchain.c are started with "sigchain.h"
>> I checked sigchain.h, and it didn't import any bug.
>> But to keep consistant with general rule, we should take this patch.
>
> Commentary suitable for below "---".
>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> sigchain.c | 2 +-
>> test-sigchain.c | 2 +-
>> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/sigchain.c b/sigchain.c
>> index 1118b99..faa375d 100644
>> --- a/sigchain.c
>> +++ b/sigchain.c
>> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>> -#include "sigchain.h"
>> #include "cache.h"
>> +#include "sigchain.h"
>>
>> #define SIGCHAIN_MAX_SIGNALS 32
>>
>> diff --git a/test-sigchain.c b/test-sigchain.c
>> index 42db234..e499fce 100644
>> --- a/test-sigchain.c
>> +++ b/test-sigchain.c
>> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>> -#include "sigchain.h"
>> #include "cache.h"
>> +#include "sigchain.h"
>>
>> #define X(f) \
>> static void f(int sig) { \
>> --
>> 1.9.0.138.g2de3478.dirty
I am honored to get detailed guidance from you.
Thank you very very much.
He Sun
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