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Date:   Fri, 10 Jul 2020 15:35:19 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To:     "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: USB MASS STORAGE
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On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 21:36:03 +0200
"Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@al2klimov.de> wrote:

> 2) Apropos "series" and "as whole"... I stumbled over
>     `git log --oneline |grep -Fwe treewide`
>     and am wondering:
>     *Shouldn't all of these patches even begin with "treewide: "?*
>     E.g.: "treewide: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: GCC PLUGINS"

No, this isn't something that needs to be done across the tree all at
once.  Keep going through the appropriate maintainers as you have, but do
please try to adjust your subject lines to match what they do.

jon