On Friday 22 December 2017 05:41 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > *However*, my main problem with getting rid of ChangeLogs is that > without a pull-request-based contribution procedure or some tool support > like Gerrit, it's impossible to tell which parts of a patch submission> make > it into a commit message. For glibc, we regularly have commits > where the commit message is not informative at all, and we don't really > know what will be committed by a contributor before the fact.
IIUC the way the kernel community solves this is by ensuring that the patch in the mailing list makes it in exactly as is so that the mbox for the email can simply be git-am'd into the repo. That is, subject line and mail body become commit messages. This could actually make tools like patchwork effective too since patches on patchwork can then be reliably auto-closed in the post-commit hook. Siddhesh
