Hi Shuah, > I went looking in the git log. Looks like there are several commits with > "Changes since" included in the commit log. It still appears to be > maintainer preference. Probably from networking and networking related > areas - wireless being one of them. This trend is recent it appears in > any case. Yeah. I was really just observing that I'd seen this, and some people (I guess 'many' was an exaggeration) actively request it to be in the commit log. I "grew up" with "changelog after ---" too ;-) > There is a value to seeing changes as the work evolves. However, there > is the concern that how log should it be. That doesn't parse, what did you mean? > This example commit has history from RFC stage and no doubt very useful > since this is a new driver. > > 8ef988b914bd449458eb2174febb67b0f137b33c > > If we make this more of a norm, we do want to make sure, we evolve > from informal nature of these "Changes since", to "Commit log" text. Not sure it's really worth it, but I guess some recommendations could be useful. If it is indeed to become the norm, and there aren't some people who strongly feel it should *not* be included. johannes
