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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Chinmoy Chakraborty <chinmoy12c@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] cache-tree.c: remove implicit dependency on the_repository
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2021 22:36:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq5z12zk3q.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16da2d91-9eda-ddf4-dd87-e07fb2bfbbcb@gmail.com> (Chinmoy Chakraborty's message of "Sun, 4 Apr 2021 10:41:35 +0530")

Chinmoy Chakraborty <chinmoy12c@gmail.com> writes:

>> And if you are building somewhere other than the tip of 'master', it
>> is necessary to say where, in order to save confusion and wasted
>> effort for your readers.  E.g.  "This patch was made on top of
>> merging topic 'X' and 'Y' into 'master'".  Then you'd only have to
>> wait for 'X' and 'Y' to graduate to 'master' before the topic can
>> proceed.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> Should this information also be added to the commit message
>
> or just the cover letter of the patch?

We often see people write it in the cover letter for multi-patch
series.  For a single patch topic, it is written under the
three-dash line.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-04  5:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-25 19:48 [PATCH] cache-tree.c: remove implicit dependency on the_repository Chinmoy via GitGitGadget
2021-03-25 20:31 ` Derrick Stolee
2021-03-26  6:49   ` Chinmoy Chakraborty
2021-03-26  7:54   ` Chinmoy Chakraborty
2021-03-26 15:35 ` [PATCH v2] " Chinmoy via GitGitGadget
2021-04-03 15:57   ` [PATCH v3] " Chinmoy via GitGitGadget
2021-04-04  1:49     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-04  5:11       ` Chinmoy Chakraborty
2021-04-04  5:36         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-04-04  5:18       ` Chinmoy Chakraborty
2021-04-04  6:09     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-05 13:08       ` Derrick Stolee
2021-04-05 17:48         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-07  6:54     ` [PATCH v4] " Chinmoy via GitGitGadget
2021-04-07 23:03       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-08  3:56         ` Chinmoy Chakraborty
2021-04-08 13:23           ` Junio C Hamano

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