On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 04:40:22PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > - there are a non-trivial number of patches for other projects (JGIT, > > EGIT, StGit, etc). This is somewhat unique to git, where we discuss > > a lot of related projects on the list. But I wonder if other > > projects would use subsystems in a similar way (though I guess for > > the kernel, there are separate subsystems lists, so the "to" or "cc" > > header becomes the more interesting tag). > > The kernel mostly uses "[PATCH] subsystem: ...". Occasionally I see > "[PATCH somegitrepo ...] ..." when it's necessary to explicitly say > whose git repo the patch needs to go through, but that's pretty rare.
We do both. "foo: blah" is for subsystem "foo" of Git itself, but all-caps "JGIT PATCH" is "this is not even for Git". I don't know that the kernel really has an equivalent. -Peff
