Git commit message for config updates

Ben Collins ben.collins at canonical.com
Fri Aug 1 03:24:58 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 22:21 -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> Ben:
> 
> I think it's less of everyone "wants" to do this, and more that it's
> the default in the template.  If there are no more rebases going on
> anytime soon, could you perhaps just change the default on the git
> tree's template?

Ah, good point. Thanks for pointing that out.

> Regards
> 
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 22:08, Ben Collins <bcollins at ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
>         Recently it seems everyone wants to add Ignore: yes for
>         updates to
>         config files in git. This has the affect of it not showing up
>         in
>         changelog, which is just not what we want.
>         
>         Initially, I had ignored config updates that came along with
>         rebases to
>         newer kernel versions (e.g. rc3 to rc4) to just do a mass
>         update for
>         upstream changes.
>         
>         However, when we do change our default configs for bug
>         reports, or to
>         enable specific features, it should not be ignored. This is
>         important
>         information to have in the changelog.
>         
>         Thanks
>         
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> 
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