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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Cc: Zack Brown <zbrown@tumblerings.org>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ChangeLog suggestion
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 09:34:25 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304260931190.2276-100000@home.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200304260652.h3Q6qJmB000386@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>


On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, John Bradford wrote:
> 
> The changelogs are generated by BitKeeper - couldn't we simply include
> a link that will let anybody[1] access the relevant changesets?

Well, yes, the changelogs are generated by BitKeeper, but what gets fed 
into bitkeeper is controlled by some scripts I wrote, which are the ones 
that take the email and munge it into a readable format etc. So by the 
time the thing hits my BK repository, the email headers will all have been 
thrown away, except for "From: " and "Subject: ". So BK never sees the 
full email.

(Even my scripts don't see the full email a large percentage of the time:  
I end up prettifying the emails for actual application by first removing
things like "Hi Linus, please apply this" etc which are pointless in the 
changelog).

		Linus


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-26 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-26  6:21 ChangeLog suggestion Zack Brown
2003-04-26  6:52 ` John Bradford
2003-04-26 15:12   ` Zack Brown
2003-04-26 17:28     ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-04-26 16:34   ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2003-04-26 16:50     ` Larry McVoy
2003-04-26 16:50     ` John Bradford
2003-04-26 16:53       ` John Bradford
2003-04-26 17:07     ` Zack Brown
2003-04-26 16:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-26 17:44   ` Shachar Shemesh
2003-04-26 18:06     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-26 18:17       ` Shachar Shemesh
2003-04-26 18:23         ` Larry McVoy
2003-04-26 18:29       ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-26 20:08 b_adlakha

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