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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/1/19 4:02 PM, Richard Purdie
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Mon, 2019-04-01 at 15:33 -0700, akuster808 wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Hello,
I have noticed a large number of git commits with no header
information being accepted.
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Can you be more specific about what "no header information" means? You
mean a shortlog and no full log message?</pre>
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Commits with just a "subject" and signoff. No additional information<br>
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We tend to reference back to how the kernel does things.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html">https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html</a><br>
These two sections in particular.<br>
<h2>2) Describe your changes</h2>
<p>Describe your problem. Whether your patch is a one-line bug fix
or
5000 lines of a new feature, there must be an underlying problem
that
motivated you to do this work. Convince the reviewer that there is
a
problem worth fixing and that it makes sense for them to read past
the
first paragraph.</p>
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<p>along with this section.</p>
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<h2>14) The canonical patch format</h2>
<p>This section describes how the patch itself should be formatted.
Note
that, if you have your patches stored in a <code class="docutils
literal"><span class="pre">git</span></code> repository, proper
patch
formatting can be had with <code class="docutils literal"><span
class="pre">git</span> <span class="pre">format-patch</span></code>.
The tools cannot create
the necessary text, though, so read the instructions below anyway.</p>
<p>The canonical patch subject line is:</p>
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<pre><span></span>Subject: [PATCH 001/123] subsystem: summary phrase
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<p>The canonical patch message body contains the following:</p>
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<ul class="simple">
<li>A <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">from</span></code>
line specifying the patch author, followed by an empty
line (only needed if the person sending the patch is not the
author).</li>
<li>The body of the explanation, line wrapped at 75 columns,
which will
be copied to the permanent changelog to describe this patch.</li>
<li>An empty line.</li>
<li>The <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Signed-off-by:</span></code>
lines, described above, which will
also go in the changelog.</li>
<li>A marker line containing simply <code class="docutils
literal"><span class="pre">---</span></code>.</li>
<li>Any additional comments not suitable for the changelog.</li>
<li>The actual patch (<code class="docutils literal"><span
class="pre">diff</span></code> output).</li>
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<p>- Armin<br>
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Cheers,
Richard
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