linux-kernel - Re: rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem maintainer preference tool

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Date:	Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:55:31 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org>
Cc:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Jiri Kosina <trivial@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rfc: rewrite commit subject line for subsystem maintainer
 preference tool

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 08:35:22PM +0100, Florian Mickler wrote:

> Hehe, I know that I wouldn't want to hand edit every autogenerated patch
> people throw at me... What about just dropping everything before the
> last "]" or ":" and putting an autogenerated prefix before it in a
> pre-commit hook on your side?  

> That should work most of the time... don't know... maybe other

It's the most of the time bit that worries me, I'm generally reluctant
to script things like this when the scripts aren't very widely used and
it's a pain to get hooks distributed over all my systems and working for
all the things I need to apply patches for.

>From my point of view my current approach is actually working pretty
well with most submitters, even people doing similar janitorial stuff.
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