[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] RFC: put commit messages in *-commits subject lines?

Eli Bendersky eliben at google.com
Fri Jan 25 16:28:29 PST 2013


On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Daniel Dunbar <daniel at zuster.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Tobias Grosser <tobias at grosser.es> wrote:
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>> On 01/26/2013 12:15 AM, Daniel Dunbar wrote:
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>>> Ok, this is done and seems to work.
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>>> As far as Chris's request for getting "key directory" paths into the
>>> commit message, I thought about working on it, but in the end I'm not
>>> sure why we shouldn't just encourage people to self-tag their leading
>>> commit line with some sort of standard key ([MC], [Target/Mips],
>>> whatever).
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>> Very nice.
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>> While at that, who can get rid of the [llvm],[cfe-commits], ... prefixes?
>> I remember we agreed they just cost screen real estate.
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Careful here, these may be used to set up filters in mail clients, and
an alternative has to be provided.

For instance, I have a filter that sends all [compiler-rt] related
mail to its own folder, which is quite important for me.

Eli



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