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Re: Descriptive subjects
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 05:28:44 -0700
- Subject: Re: Descriptive subjects
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- References: <20150515075915 dot GA14783 at blade dot nx> <5555DA64 dot 9030101 at redhat dot com>
> > May I ask that people send emails to this list with more descriptive
> > subjects than, e.g., "Fix PR/12345". The numbers don't stick in my
> > head even after I've seen them 20 times, so I have to look in all
> > these emails to determine whether I need to read them. I'm sure I'm
> > not alone.
>
> Agreed.
+1. In fact, I would even suggest that we follow that guideline
for revision logs as well. When going through the log trying to
identify the commits that might be responsible for a change in
behavior, "PR bla/12345" is not very helpful for that.
--
Joel