[U-Boot] [OT] CC:s in commits (was: [PATCH 1/2] socfpga: Adding Scan Manager driver)

Chin Liang See clsee at altera.com
Mon Jan 13 23:20:51 CET 2014


Dear Albert,

On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 23:07 +0100, ZY - albert.u.boot wrote:
> Hi Wolfgang,
> 
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 22:08:15 +0100, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> 
> > Dear Albert,
> > 
> > In message <20140113173924.684ce548 at lilith> you wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Actually these Cc will be helpful when using git send-email. It will
> > > > auto cc to these mailing list when the patch is send out for review
> > > > (instead entering the names manually every time). Thanks
> > > 
> > > That is useful to the sender, but useless to anyone else.
> > 
> > This is not correct.  It is also an indicatioin who was explicitly
> > addressed when the patch was submitted, so you can later still see
> > from the commit message who was invited to commend and refrained from
> > doing so.  This may help a lot in discussions like "but I never had a
> > chance to see this patch".
> > 
> > Please keep these.  The are really useful.
> 
> Thanks Wolfgang. I hadn't considered this 'traceability' aspect -- I
> haven't been involved in enough such discussions, obviously.
> 
> Chin Liang See: apologies for the noise.

No worries. We learned something today :)

Chin Liang

> 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> > Wolfgang Denk
> 
> Amicalement,





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