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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: markus.heidelberg@web.de
Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-email: Refuse to send cover-letter template subject
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:00:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v4oupmdv5.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200906092025.18643.markus.heidelberg@web.de> (Markus Heidelberg's message of "Tue\, 9 Jun 2009 20\:25\:18 +0200")

Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> writes:

>> Good ;-).  More valuable to detect would be an empty "blurb" section
>> (i.e. not "unedited *** BLURB HERE ***" string, but literally, there is
>> nothing said in the message other than the shortstat).
>
> My mail "[PATCH 0/6] fixes for git-send-email" had an empty blurb
> section because it didn't need any additional description.
> I wouldn't want git to refuse sending it.

I actually wouldn't have wanted to see that [0/6] with empty description.

If the list of 6 patch titles give clear enough description of the theme
of the whole series, you would not need [0/6] to set the stage, and that
is the best kind of series.  For your send-email patches, you certainly
chose very good titles for them.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-09 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-08 21:34 [PATCH] send-email: Refuse to send cover-letter template subject Thomas Rast
2009-06-08 23:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-09  8:19   ` Thomas Rast
2009-06-12 11:48     ` Thomas Rast
2009-06-12 16:06       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-09 18:25   ` Markus Heidelberg
2009-06-09 19:00     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-06-09 19:32       ` Markus Heidelberg

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