From patchwork Wed Jan 26 23:42:02 2022 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Junio C Hamano X-Patchwork-Id: 12725925 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E45A0C433EF for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2022 23:42:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229942AbiAZXmL (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2022 18:42:11 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp20.pobox.com ([173.228.157.52]:53552 "EHLO pb-smtp20.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229470AbiAZXmL (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jan 2022 18:42:11 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp20.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6A1116C66A; Wed, 26 Jan 2022 18:42:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gitster@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to :subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=iAzT7Va5ggcxPKV25KFM5y5Jv jz8h+SPLFBxoJblCBw=; b=fat5x53Qob16kg9hQaVsO3t32BMmMmWGFp55DusO6 nbzEYPrOBnNB1XXm7X88pS2hAAiJ1iz7amjBtPK3LZbkd1Z/gqpU7d2mO6PDDONl BLCr3URfoLAMtc2OZPu0I4YzPXSEnVb3k3yrvAuSEjl4Y8NnbcH+IksI4J76bZkz q0= Received: from pb-smtp20.sea.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE31116C669; Wed, 26 Jan 2022 18:42:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gitster@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [104.133.2.91]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 17BC216C667; Wed, 26 Jan 2022 18:42:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gitster@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v2 0/3] contributor doc update around log messages Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 15:42:02 -0800 Message-Id: <20220126234205.2923388-1-gitster@pobox.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.35.0-168-gb86c5231e1 In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 927E7416-7F01-11EC-A721-C85A9F429DF0-77302942!pb-smtp20.pobox.com Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Here is an updated "our 'present' is before the patch is applied in the log messages" patch, together with a couple of changes to explain _why_ we care about your log messages. Hopefully by knowing whom they are trying to help with their log messages, our contributors will be able to write a more useful proposed log messages when they send their patches to the list. Junio C Hamano (3): SubmittingPatches: write problem statement in the log in the present tense CodingGuidelines: hint why we value clearly written log messages SubmittingPatches: explain why we care about log messages Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 7 +++++++ Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+)