Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Mon, 15 Jun 2020 16:07:28 -0700 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] flexible-array member conversion patches for 5.8-rc2 |
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On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 1:34 PM Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org> wrote: > > flexible-array member conversion patches for 5.8-rc2
Gaah. I merged this, and even spent some time trying to make the merge message look better, and then when I started looking at the end result, I ended up unpulling it.
It's all been recently rebased, which I might be willing to ignore for something like this, but all these one-liner patches then come with a boiler-plate commit message that is something like 50 lines long and is actively misleading as it talks about "this tree-wide patch" and just repeats the generic issues that were presented (better) in the merge message anyway.
The individual commit messages literally add nothing specific to that commit AT ALL except for the very first line, which is also boiler-plate but at least mentions the subsystem.
End result: when I do "git log" after having merged this, the result is basically two *thousand* lines of repeated noise.
Some repetition is fine. But 2000 lines of repeated boiler-plate makes me go "that's actively detrimental to any use of 'git log'" and I undid my pull.
Linus
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