From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Header lines of commit messages Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:02:27 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87mxub5p98.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <83r5jucbvq.fsf@gnu.org> <87k4pldikb.fsf@elegiac.orebokech.com> <87hbkpn8d4.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83eiftddbj.fsf@gnu.org> <87eiftn2lm.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <838w61d5gs.fsf@gnu.org> <87aaqc9xlu.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83zkyc9qjg.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1277989521 30807 80.91.229.12 (1 Jul 2010 13:05:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 13:05:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 01 15:05:18 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 1OUJS9-0005TS-K3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:05:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51879 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OUJS9-0002XM-1O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:05:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49114 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OUJRy-0002UG-MO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:05:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUJRx-0002fF-H7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:05:06 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:43077) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUJRx-0002ez-AN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:05:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUJRv-0005Lv-T1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:05:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:05:03 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:05:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:C3g0lYPY4TBsoPgXwDSGO1NzmFE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:126616 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:69774 Archived-At: On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:08:51 +0300 Eli Zaretskii 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