* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Point taken in any case, i'll read your edited changelog and will change the
> > template accordingly.
> >
> > Would this:
> >
> > ÂUpstream commit 5dabfc7 ("ext4: rename {exit,init}_ext4_*() to
> > Âext4_{exit,init}_*()"), breaks the build on all[yes/mod]config with
> > ÂCONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR disabled:
> >
> > Â...
> >
> > have been better?
>
> Yes. Except for the kernel the default git commit abbreviation is borderline too
> short. Seven hex-chars can easily alias with a few more pulls from me: git will
> not give aliases at the time it gives a shorthand, but a month or two later the
> abbreviated commit may no longer be unique.
>
> So I suggest using --abbrev=12 or similar.
ok. A helper script i use does this:
git log --pretty=format:"%h: %s" $@
I have added --abbrev=12. Might make sense to lengthen the %h default in upstream
Git as well?
> What I ended up writing your commit as was this:
>
> ext4: fix compile with CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR disabled
>
> Commit 5dabfc78dced ("ext4: rename {exit,init}_ext4_*() to
> ext4_{exit,init}_*()") causes
>
> fs/ext4/super.c:4776: error: implicit declaration of function âext4_init_xattrâ
>
> when CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR is disabled.
>
> It renamed init_ext4_xattr to ext4_init_xattr but forgot to update the
> dummy definition in fs/ext4/xattr.h.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> but that's just me.
Ok, this indeed is much nicer to read.
Thanks,
Ingo
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