I wasn't even aware we had an official list of keywords... but this plan
sounds fine to me.  That said, I personally would think that it's much more
reliable to find o3-related changes by doing 'hg log src/cpu/o3' than by
trusting that appropriate keywords were used in the commit message.

Steve


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Andreas Hansson <[email protected]>wrote:

> Assuming everyone is happy with this I'd suggest to expand the list on the
> wiki and create a heading with keywords (and their corresponding
> sub-keywords) and then start populating it.
>
> Andreas
>
>
> On 26/06/2013 10:06, "Andreas Sandberg" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >On 06/24/2013 02:49 PM, Andreas Hansson wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm keen to know what people think about the use of summary keywords in
> >>the commit messages. I noticed that Nilay uses two keywords, one from
> >>http://gem5.org/Commit_Access and then one additional (more specific)
> >>keyword. Pros/cons? Is it suggesting a need for more keywords?
> >
> >I'm in favour of using multiple keywords. I've generally used the format
> >"kvm: arch: summary" for my KVM-related patches and I think this might
> >be a good idea in general. For example, the O3 CPU is a pretty large
> >subsystem, so that should to warrant its own sub-keyword ("cpu: o3: ...").
> >
> >However, we should probably try to "standardize" the keywords we use to
> >make it easier to search for relevant changes in the revision history.
> >
> >//Andreas
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