On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 04:03:26PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > First line should be > <subsystem_name>: A single line description of the patch. > This appear in the subject line of the mail that results from different > commit list. BTW, we use this subject format for util-linux-ng and I have a simple python script that generates nice changelogs (for release notes) from git log. IMHO a changelog [1] that is sorted and grouped by <subsystem_name> is better for end-users that output from git-shortlog. Karel [1] see Changelog section: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.13/v2.13-ReleaseNotes -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html