From patchwork Fri Sep 28 21:20:49 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Jonathan Nieder X-Patchwork-Id: 10620327 Return-Path: Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.125]) by pdx-korg-patchwork-2.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 750E1112B for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2018 21:20:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 659B52BE85 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2018 21:20:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id 598442BE99; Fri, 28 Sep 2018 21:20:56 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.0 required=2.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF98A2BE85 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2018 21:20:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727203AbeI2Dq2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2018 23:46:28 -0400 Received: from mail-pg1-f195.google.com ([209.85.215.195]:40138 "EHLO mail-pg1-f195.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726451AbeI2Dq2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2018 23:46:28 -0400 Received: by mail-pg1-f195.google.com with SMTP id n31-v6so5307310pgm.7 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2018 14:20:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=EDhskakqtTiFEdTi3m6aUgoU6IK++gPy5R6w75WeR4w=; b=SyBOKYm0gAS3eTtOu/5iIzwLcjxdzihyvNXtachWv2B5z/0tzkDjmU9DXI13a9RYom MLpNCTiap2Vb8O6xB6C872wqDgFtGnLkS7vAn7qtrTGsKn6ST8+fbC1gZDwtBpavaD2Y 3+rFqC/PjETqyGKmC6FYIivTkEuCl5CncU1gSBJ5OleiBf1rcyk5c8Oc0at114W5yPHF 79hw2t2P4kyeZOA1AnolrY2uhS4r6bRA/13ULBixQAytJmk1tZgZXsSu9I/Rhijwos3C tV1lVVUONmE7JM+m52SFzjRpBQYtB2MF0OVNI37PK502J4du1a9tjouc0EimDEcBmV2j Pgag== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=EDhskakqtTiFEdTi3m6aUgoU6IK++gPy5R6w75WeR4w=; b=mw4/xPXomxYo2vRGDe0qX66Yy3Llvq7pLqIl+bGVUrEihypyV7xryQ6VrixoKkfPzj h5X+H2ez8J4YjvGt4B75oaLGSxvJS5W6ivn2uwCuYNNCgAVNfOtQ5wtkBmVu9FcKykPk DtS2y3TEjpd/iWop9yvjHwuJABKLeJrRw3SqLiaWiXkQ3JQyykknuTuNpRLKezYxXCVQ dJ/p9VL6yY1bGFYqeMOa6uhY/0ZXqGnHCDjUGk0jmMwWtilOu8r0EpQoM7xroQkjczLX ECPKwkqEEIyt7tAn0qBVCW27MvFW6QsyOruDj4myPERgAsIaaLnybUVGjCQsUPuPzmMn J9kg== X-Gm-Message-State: ABuFfogD/LV72bT80bbilapuTXJkN+ROxwR8B3dUoqNNnYnYxsICqKsr CHcrUavDsGGcEmL5fD2OBqo= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACcGV61ZeVSisUAgZn+IAUCgJGMWoDMMcmrmbX1+NCdDwlqRG7H42Rg6eoUGlAwcYxQf6y3nE04OLQ== X-Received: by 2002:a63:2f81:: with SMTP id v123-v6mr340115pgv.223.1538169652744; Fri, 28 Sep 2018 14:20:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aiede.svl.corp.google.com ([2620:0:100e:422:4187:1d6c:d3d6:9ce6]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id v2-v6sm8614743pgf.58.2018.09.28.14.20.51 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Fri, 28 Sep 2018 14:20:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 14:20:49 -0700 From: Jonathan Nieder To: Junio C Hamano Cc: Martin =?utf-8?b?w4VncmVu?= , Git Mailing List , Taylor Blau Subject: [PATCH] git doc: direct bug reporters to mailing list archive (Re: [PATCH v2] git.txt: mention mailing list archive) Message-ID: <20180928212049.GD193055@aiede.svl.corp.google.com> References: <20180926134717.GC25697@syl> <20180927055018.6683-1-martin.agren@gmail.com> <20180927063735.GC220288@aiede.svl.corp.google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Subject: git doc: direct bug reporters to mailing list archive The mailing list archive can help a user encountering a bug to tell whether a recent regression has already been reported and whether a longstanding bug has already had some discussion to start their thinking. Based-on-patch-by: Martin Ågren Improved-by: Junio C Hamano Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder --- Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Jonathan Nieder wrote: >>> Hm. I think this encourages a behavior that I want to discourage: >>> assuming that if a bug has already been reported then there's nothing >>> more for the new user to add. [...] > Yup, in short I think any one of the above three is good enough. > Let's just pick one and move on. Unless somebody sends in an > improvement that can be applied readily, by default I'll just "git > am" the one Martin sent, as that is the easiest thing to do ;-). I assume this is meant as a nudge, in which case nudge successful. ;-) My experience is that bug reporters are very sensitive to hints the project gives about what kind of bugs they want to receive. I'd rather make use of that lesson now instead of waiting to relearn it in the wild. Here goes. Thanks, both. Documentation/git.txt | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 74a9d7edb4..8e6a92e8ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -858,7 +858,9 @@ Reporting Bugs Report bugs to the Git mailing list where the development and maintenance is primarily done. You do not have to be -subscribed to the list to send a message there. +subscribed to the list to send a message there. See the list archive +at https://public-inbox.org/git for previous bug reports and other +discussions. Issues which are security relevant should be disclosed privately to the Git Security mailing list .