From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261857AbTDZQVm (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2003 12:21:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261863AbTDZQVm (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2003 12:21:42 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:32275 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261857AbTDZQVk (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Apr 2003 12:21:40 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 09:34:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: John Bradford cc: Zack Brown , Marcelo Tosatti , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: ChangeLog suggestion In-Reply-To: <200304260652.h3Q6qJmB000386@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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