From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Header lines of commit messages Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 18:27:12 +0300 Message-ID: <83eiftddbj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83r5jucbvq.fsf@gnu.org> <87k4pldikb.fsf@elegiac.orebokech.com> <87hbkpn8d4.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1277565930 20657 80.91.229.12 (26 Jun 2010 15:25:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:25:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: romain@orebokech.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 26 17:25:27 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OSXFx-0004nC-OT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:25:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60089 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OSXFx-0003c0-78 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:25:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59624 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OSXFr-0003bv-Qz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:25:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OSXFq-0005MP-Eg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:25:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:35408) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OSXFp-0005M9-N2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:25:14 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L4M00200O03WA00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 18:25:10 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.155.52]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L4M00A8PO5X9F91@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 18:25:10 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87hbkpn8d4.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:126441 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:04:07 +0900 > > Romain Francoise writes: > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > > > The header line that summarizes the commit conveys useless > > > information. > > I would phrase that "the headline conveys the information that > thinking about this commit is useless to Emacs maintainers." > Seriously, you've been describing your information overload in other > contexts. Exactly. That is why seeing "cherry-pick commit ABCDEF" means I need to read the whole commit message, i.e. waste my time, whereas "[merge] Do not bind obsolete variables." tells it all without any additional effort. > Yes, as a member of the project, it's important to have > some idea of who's active, but the details would just be overload. Sorry, I'm not following. I didn't want to see the author of the change, just its essence.