Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/7] vhost-user: add multiple queue support

[Yuanhan Liu]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:10:35AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:06:56AM +0800, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> > If not, I'd like to put them into the commit log, as putting it
> > outside the commit log gives unnecessary extra burden to patch
> > author when he need update several version change information
> > in a patch set: he has to format the patch set first, and add
> > them one by one by editing those patches.
> 
> I personally just describe the changes in the cover letter.

I did that as well. I just thought metioning them inside the patch
again will make it clear for you to review.

        --yliu
> 
> In fact, while not a lot of people do this, git-backport-diff
> (from https://github.com/codyprime/git-scripts.git)
> is a handy tool to show which patches changed since the
> previous version, and it only works if the change log
> is in the cover letter.
> 
> Or you can stick --- in the commit log as you have found out -
> but that depends on the patch author being careful to log
> all edits.
> -- 
> MST