From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: romain@orebokech.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Header lines of commit messages
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:08:37 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eiftn2lm.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83eiftddbj.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii writes:
> > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
> > > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> 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."<wink>
> > 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.
You're missing the point. Romain and the org-mode community are
responsible for org-mode most of the time, until it becomes Stefan's/
Yidong's baby in the run-up to a release. Either way, it should not
affect any of the things you are interested in, so you just don't want
to know. You want your eyes to glide right over "org-mode synch to
git commit ABCDEF" just as it does over "Gnus synch." Life is too
short to even think about that stuff. Put it this way: what could
Romain have written there that would cause you to want to read the
whole commit message?
If you really *do* want to know about irrelevant commits, I don't
understand why you find it acceptable that Gnus doesn't rebase its
synchs into the mainline. After all, Gnus contains message-mode, and
that does affect your life since message-mode is proposed as a
replacement for RMail's composition mode, a replacement you don't yet
consider acceptable. So what exactly is happening in Gnus is in fact
relevant to you; even I know that. Why don't you complain about that?
Presumably because *there are too many irrelevant commits* compressed
into those merges, and you are forced to the conclusion that reading
them would be a waste of your time, and a waste of the committer's
time to rebase them onto the mainline.
Well, the org-mode synch is just as irrelevant.
> > 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.
You think you do, but that's just an unproductive habit, as shown by
the fact that you don't have a problem with the Gnus merge messages.
Also, by "who" I mean which subprojects, not which developers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-26 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-26 10:43 Header lines of commit messages Eli Zaretskii
2010-06-26 13:33 ` Romain Francoise
2010-06-26 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-06-26 15:04 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-06-26 15:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-06-26 17:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2010-06-26 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-06-27 12:36 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-06-30 18:36 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-06-30 21:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-01 13:02 ` Ted Zlatanov
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