where is PRnnnn required again?

[David Malcolm]

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, <msebor@gmail.com 
> > <mailto:msebor@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
>