From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Header lines of commit messages
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:02:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxub5p98.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83zkyc9qjg.fsf@gnu.org
On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:08:51 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
EZ> As long as you are committing to the Emacs repository many unrelated
EZ> changes, there really is no way of making the commit messages more
EZ> useful. But at least in several cases, it looks like the committed
EZ> changes belong to a single changeset. Examples:
...
EZ> For such changes, it would be more useful if the first line of the
EZ> commit message summarized the change, instead of saying just "Synch
EZ> with Gnus trunk". That would allow to, e.g., find the merge which
EZ> introduced some specific change in Gnus by just looking at the output
EZ> of "bzr log --line", which shows only those first lines from the
EZ> commit messages.
Thanks for explaining. The Gnus developers will try to make these
commits look better in the --line format and we'll see if we can make
the synchronization happen for every commit instead of batched.
Ted
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-01 13:02 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
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 [this message]
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