From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C06221F4F8 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 01:37:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932225AbcITBhI (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2016 21:37:08 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([104.130.231.41]:45359 "EHLO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932185AbcITBhI (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2016 21:37:08 -0400 Received: (qmail 11992 invoked by uid 109); 20 Sep 2016 01:37:07 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with SMTP; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 01:37:07 +0000 Received: (qmail 16184 invoked by uid 111); 20 Sep 2016 01:37:19 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with SMTP; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 21:37:19 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 19 Sep 2016 18:37:04 -0700 Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 18:37:04 -0700 From: Jeff King To: Josh Triplett Cc: Junio C Hamano , Andrew Donnellan , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] format-patch: Add --rfc for the common case of [RFC PATCH] Message-ID: <20160920013704.7hk2creytmfrla6h@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <3df15bbb-7eac-86ec-2ccb-74a973482e8c@au1.ibm.com> <20160919204408.GA28962@cloud> <20160919233434.fhkikksi4cxzrzb5@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20160919234022.GA29421@cloud> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160919234022.GA29421@cloud> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 04:40:22PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > - there are a non-trivial number of patches for other projects (JGIT, > > EGIT, StGit, etc). This is somewhat unique to git, where we discuss > > a lot of related projects on the list. But I wonder if other > > projects would use subsystems in a similar way (though I guess for > > the kernel, there are separate subsystems lists, so the "to" or "cc" > > header becomes the more interesting tag). > > The kernel mostly uses "[PATCH] subsystem: ...". Occasionally I see > "[PATCH somegitrepo ...] ..." when it's necessary to explicitly say > whose git repo the patch needs to go through, but that's pretty rare. We do both. "foo: blah" is for subsystem "foo" of Git itself, but all-caps "JGIT PATCH" is "this is not even for Git". I don't know that the kernel really has an equivalent. -Peff