Re: linux-next: Fixes tag needs some work in the clk tree

From: Fabio Estevam
Date: Fri Jan 18 2019 - 07:49:45 EST


Hi Michael,

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 10:41 AM Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yeah "one line summary" is referring to the subject of the commit.
>
> So it doesn't explicitly say not to split it across lines, it probably
> should.
>
> eg: ?
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> index 30dc00a364e8..12a283ba3929 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> @@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ If your patch fixes a bug in a specific commit, e.g. you found an issue using
>
> Fixes: e21d2170f366 ("video: remove unnecessary platform_set_drvdata()")
>
> +To ease parsing of the 'Fixes:' tag please don't split it across multiple lines.
> +
> The following ``git config`` settings can be used to add a pretty format for
> outputting the above style in the ``git log`` or ``git show`` commands::

Yes, I think this make it clearer. Thanks