Hi Ihor, Ihor Radchenko <[email protected]> writes:
> Bastien <[email protected]> writes: > >> Please be careful not to add ":" after "[PATCH]" in the subject. > > Note that this is a fairly common pattern. Over the last 172707 mails, we have 12802 occurrences of "[PATCH] " vs 198 occurrences of "[PATCH]:", so rougly 1.5% of occurrences, and more than 1/4 of them appearing within the last six months, mostly by Pedro and you. So I'm curious: was there a special reason to start using [PATCH]: ? Here are the reasons I see to stick to "[PATCH] " : - git format-patch emits "[PATCH] ". - Most mailing list managers add subject labels and a space. - The column is used in patch subjects to indicate a topic, a convention that BARK respects. For example in "[PATCH] org-agenda: add this", the topic is "org-agenda". I would find "[PATCH]: org-agenda: add this" confusing. > Rather than trying to convince people not using this kind of subject > line, we should rather allow such variant. Check the list archives - I > see examples of [PATCH]: all the way back in 2007. Same in debbugs. In the last 50K emails from emacs-bugs@, I count 11 occurrences of [PATCH]: vs 10K occurrences of "[PATCH]". Entirely up to you, of course, but I read these numbers as saying that the most common convention is to use "[PATCH] " - let me know if there is something I miss. -- Bastien
