On Wed, 2021-07-07 at 16:58 -0600, Martin Sebor via Gcc wrote: > On 7/7/21 4:24 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 7 Jul 2021, 23:18 Martin Sebor, <mse...@gmail.com > > <mailto:mse...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > On 7/7/21 3:53 PM, Marek Polacek wrote: > > > I'm not sure why you keep hitting so many issues; git addlog > > takes care of > > > this stuff for me and I've had no trouble pushing my > > patches. Is > > there > > > a reason you don't use it also? > > > > I probably have a completely different workflow. Git addlog > > isn't > > a git command (is it some sort of a GCC extension?), and what I > > put > > in the subject of my emails is almost never the same thing as > > what > > I put in the commit message. > > > > > > Why not? Why is it useful to write two different explanations of > > the patch? > > Sometimes, maybe. I don't really think about it too much. I'm not > the only one who does it. But what bearing does what we put in > the subject of our patch submissions have on this discussion?
FWIW if you use a different subject line for the email as for commit message, it makes it harder to find discussion about the patch in the list archives. > You may have one way of doing things and others another. Yours may > even be better/more streamlined, I don't know. That doesn't mean > our tooling should make things more difficult for the the rest of us. > > Martin >
