From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Referring to revisions in the git future. Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:49:06 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20141029134906.GA3842@thyrsus.com> References: <20141028223312.GB6630@acm.acm> <87fve7b6p7.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20141029095248.GA14601@thyrsus.com> <14EBA0CC-D952-4199-AFA2-8B2EC433094F@swipnet.se> <20141029132744.GB2839@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414590616 22097 80.91.229.3 (29 Oct 2014 13:50:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:50:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Kastrup , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 29 14:50:11 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XjTda-0007fJ-9y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:50:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46237 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjTda-0006aA-0o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:50:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34831) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjTdB-00065i-V3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:49:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjTd7-000818-Rh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:49:45 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:57835 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjTd3-00080H-CR; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:49:37 -0400 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CE41F382EF3; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:49:06 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141029132744.GB2839@thyrsus.com> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:175987 Archived-At: Eric S. Raymond : > Jan Dj=E4rv : > > > 29 okt 2014 kl. 10:52 skrev Eric S. Raymond : > > >=20 > > > About summary lines, a reminder: Please don't write the traditional > > > GNUish run-on change comment with a semi-infinite number of bullete= d > > > items in it any more. We're no longer in CVS-land, commits are chea= p, > > > make them fine-grained. =20 > > >=20 > >=20 > > When using vc-mode it is very easy to insert the ChangeLog entry.=20 > > Why is that bad? >=20 > Look at a gitk listing. You'll see it. Thinking about it, this was too short an answer. Sorry. A better answer is that it's fine to insert the ChangeLog entry *if you p= ut it after a proper self-contained summary line*. That way, listings=20 in gitk and git log -1 will make sense. --=20 Eric S. Raymond