Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: commit rules for common git tree

[Andreas Färber]

Am 27.12.2009 um 17:12 schrieb Blue Swirl:

> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin  
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 2. When a change is committed to the tree, often no notification is  
> > sent
> >   to the author.
> >   Why is it a good idea to ask everyone to subscribe to qemu commits
> >   list as well? Can 'applied thanks' mail be sent to patch authors?
>
> In the good old times, CVS commit messages went also to qemu-devel
> list. That may no longer be technically possible or even desirable
> because of the volume. I think qemu-commits sends the message to the
> qemu-commits list and the author, so the 'applied, thanks' shouldn't
> be needed if the list worked reliably.

Unfortunately it doesn't work most of the time, so one rarely knows  
whether a patch (series) is applied already a) for pulling and b)  
after pulling in midst of all the git-log noise.
It's not just about one's own patches, it also affects ack'ing other  
people's patches. If there's no reply to a patch we can't tell whether  
it means no one has looked at it yet (so that ack'ing it makes sense)  
or whether it was immediately applied already.

Having an 'Applied, thanks' message as indicator in the thread on qemu- 
devel as in good old times is still useful since the emails once sent  
by qemu-commits had no relation to the original thread.
Some of you do still reply, thanks for taking the time! Maybe in a git- 
am workflow such a one-line reply could even be automated based on the  
patch's Message-ID? :)

Andreas