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From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
To: Sebastian Lipp <bacuh@riseup.net>
Cc: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] emacs: add missing paren to fix defun in notmuch-address.el.
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 12:35:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761j9kr5x.fsf@ktab.red-bean.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878uo6dxup.fsf@verb.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (Sebastian Lipp's message of "Sun, 06 Jul 2014 22:41:02 +0200")

Sebastian Lipp <bacuh@riseup.net> writes:
>Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
>> In general, supplying a log message with the patch with avoid such
>> confusion.  If there is some prose expressing what the change is
>> supposed to to, and giving any historical context (such as the mailing
>> list thread starting from last year), then it will be easy for any
>> reviewer to understand what the patch is intended to do, and check if it
>> actually does that.
>
>Okay, next time I will provide that information inline. Thought keeping
>References and In-Reply-To headers would be sufficient reference.

Well, when the patch is committed into a version control system, it's
going to need a log message (commit message) anyway.  Since that message
is considered part of the change -- anyone reading the change will start
by reading the commit message -- it's typical to just include it with
the diff.

The commit message can certainly include a reference to the email
thread; in fact, it's good if it does so.

Best,
­Karl

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-07 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-06 18:33 [PATCH] emacs: add missing paren to fix defun in notmuch-address.el Karl Fogel
2013-04-07 13:52 ` David Bremner
2013-04-07 21:50   ` Karl Fogel
2013-04-08  8:16     ` Tomi Ollila
2013-04-08  8:40       ` Jani Nikula
2013-04-08 10:50         ` David Bremner
2013-04-09  1:12           ` Jed Brown
2013-04-09  6:32             ` Tomi Ollila
2013-04-09 11:50               ` David Bremner
2013-04-09 12:12                 ` Tomi Ollila
2014-07-04  0:38                   ` Sebastian Lipp
2014-07-04  0:56                     ` Karl Fogel
2014-07-04  9:25                       ` Sebastian Lipp
2014-07-05 18:18                         ` Karl Fogel
2014-07-06 20:41                           ` Sebastian Lipp
2014-07-07 17:35                             ` Karl Fogel [this message]
2014-07-06 20:37                       ` Sebastian Lipp
2014-07-07 17:40                         ` Karl Fogel
2014-07-08  8:56                         ` Tomi Ollila
2014-07-08 17:59                           ` Karl Fogel
2014-07-04 16:31                     ` Tomi Ollila

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