linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] drm for 6.18-rc1

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wgR61VxiHyOKXBJv_HinoFVA2av1EuSHg5NcRGC1fNq3w@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2025 11:09:45 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>, Sima Vetter <sima@...ll.ch>, 
	dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm for 6.18-rc1

On Fri, 3 Oct 2025 at 03:53, Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com> wrote:
>
> I get about 15-20 pull requests in various formats from very different
> groups of people, if I just cut-n-paste them all into the changelog it
> would be horribly inconsistent.

Yes.  Exactly.

> I try to harmonize them for myself, so they are somewhat visually
> consistent

Me too. You just don't do a very good job at it, I feel

> i.e. single level of indenting is my limit.

Why?

Yes. You do multiple merges:

  $ git rev-list --count --merges --author=Airlie v6.16..v6.17
  48

and yes, trying to make the merge messages be legible is a fair amount of work.

But lookie here:

  git rev-list --count --merges --author=Torvalds v6.16..v6.17
  441

IOW, I do closer to AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE more merges than you do.
And I spend the time and try to do it right. I don't have some "one
level of indentation only" rule, I try to make the merge messages
consistent and legible.

And in order to try to lessen the burden of that consistency, I then
ask the people I pull from to try to have better messages to make it
easier for me to do that.

If you get pull requests from the people you pull from that make it
harder for you to do a better job, please push back on them too.

But maybe you now understand why I am asking *you* to try to do a
better job at formatting. Exactly like apparently you should ask the
people you pull from.

Please.

               Linus