On Mon, 7 Mar 2011 14:47:00 +0000
Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 09:58:56PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> > Andres Salomon wrote:
>
> >>>> MFD changes in c738892f cause the mc13xxx_platform_data struct
>
> >>> Linus asks to also specify the commit summary in parens.
>
> >> Also, what? If there are changes to how patches should be
> >> submitted, please provide a reference
> >> (Documentation/SubmittingPatches should be updated, as well).
>
> > I have no time to rummage in the mail archives, sorry.
>
> There's been multiple discussions of this. The issue is that commit
> IDs only mean something in specific trees and go bad if someone
> rebases, and they aren't legibile by humans (so even if the commit is
> in something like Linus' tree the reader still needs a git repository
> to figure out what changes are being talked about).
Ah, thanks, that makes sense. Sergei's original statement was unclear
("...instead of just the commit ID" would've helped).
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