[U-Boot] [PATCH] Fix spelling of "occurred".

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon May 2 20:57:28 CEST 2016


Hi Scott,

On 1 May 2016 at 17:34, Scott Wood <oss at buserror.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-05-01 at 12:55 -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 30 April 2016 at 20:18, Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant at debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> Please can you add a commit message?
>
> I don't understand these "empty/missing commit message" remarks when there's a
> one-line changelog (in the subject).  Do you seriously want the same line
> repeated twice in the git commit, just so something shows up in the body of
> the e-mail?  It's one thing if the commit warrants more than a single line
> (though it's still not accurate to say that the changelog is completely
> absent), but a spelling fix is about as trivial as it gets...
> -Scott
>

It only takes a few seconds to add a commit message and I think it is
good practice.

But if you want to allow commits with no message (other than
merge/release tag), then we should document it here:
http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches

Regards,
Simon


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