[Buildroot] [PATCH] yasm: New package

Alex Bradbury asb at asbradbury.org
Thu Aug 9 09:19:13 UTC 2012


On 9 August 2012 09:34, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> You shouldn't include "personal" messages in the commit log here. This
> part of the commit log will remain forever in the Git history, so we
> don't want to have messages like "Hopefully it went right...".
>
> If you have something to say beyond the commit log itself, then I think
> the easiest solution is to use git send-email --compose, which will
> prompt you for the text of an introduction e-mail. Then git send-email
> will send N+1 e-mails: your introduction e-mail + the N patches you
> told send-email to send. And git send-email is smart enough to make
> those N emails replies to the introduction e-mail.

Alternatively you can put text that won't be included in the commit
log after the first `---` and before the diffstat, which seems more
appropriate for a standalone patch.

Alex



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