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Message-Id: <20100115.005445.263291449.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:54:45 -0800 (PST)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de
Cc: adi@...apodia.org, julia@...u.dk, nm127@...email.hu,
david.vrabel@....com, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cocci@...u.dk
Subject: Re: Changelog quality
From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:50:51 +0100
> David Miller wrote:
>> And likewise here, I want to see what the hell found the bug by
>> reading the changelog message.
>
> Coccinelle found it. In contrast to parsers like sparse, it had to be
> programmed to do so. If you want to repeat that process, you have to
> get coccinelle and the script. Both can be found quickly without having
> them both in the SCM.
I still don't see how this can argue for not putting the script into
the commit message.
And you overstate how "easily" the script can be found.
What button do I push in gitk when viewing a commit to find the
script?
If I have to go out of the tool, that's the beginning down the long
road of potential distractions.
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