Re: let's not complain about harmless patch-apply failures

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Sergei Kornilov <sk(at)zsrv(dot)org>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: let's not complain about harmless patch-apply failures
Date: 2018-01-16 19:51:13
Message-ID: 20180116195113.ltb2x5edw466kzrz@alvherre.pgsql
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David Fetter wrote:

> I'm sure I'm not alone in finding it helpful when patch sets come with
> a single-sentence summary of the patch set and a commit message for
> each individual patch.
>
> Is git format-patch really too heavy a lift to ask of people?

I think it's okay as general guideline, but not as a hard requirement.
Just like we advise people to trim quoted text when they reply to
mailing list postings, but we don't boot those that fail to.

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

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