[PATCH, v3] wwwdocs: e-mail subject lines for contributions

[Michael Matz]

Hi,

On Mon, 3 Feb 2020, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:

> The idea is that the [...] part is NOT part of the commit, only part of 
> the email.

I understand that, but the subject line of this thread says "e-mail 
subject lines", so I thought we were talking about, well, exactly that; 
and I see no value of these tags in e-mails either.

(They might have a low but non-zero value for projects that use 
a single mailing list for patches and generic discussion, but we are not 
such project)

Basically: if they are deemed to clutter the git log for whatever reason, 
then there must be a very good argument for why they not also clutter 
e-mail subject lines, but instead are essential to have there, 
but not in the log.

> 'git am' would strip leading [...] automatically unless 
> you've configured, or asked git to do otherwise.  So that leading part 
> is not counted for the length calculation.

There's still e-mail netiquette which also should be obeyed, or at least 
not contradicted by git netiquette.


Ciao,
Michael.