Re: Proposal: Make cfbot fail on patches not created by "git format-patch"

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jelte Fennema-Nio <me@jeltef.nl>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-05-16T16:12:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Jelte Fennema-Nio <me@jeltef.nl> writes:
> Based on the discussion there I'm planning to make the cfbot fail to apply
> a patch in the following two cases:
> ...
> To be clear, it means we don't
> run CI on patches created by  piping "git diff" to a file anymore, as a way
> to nudge submitters into providing useful commit messages.

That outcome seems entirely horrible to me.  If you want to flag the lack
of a commit message somehow, fine, but don't prevent CI from running.

			regards, tom lane