From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Commit netiquette. Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:25:40 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87eikjzaug.fsf@telefonica.net> <87vdds6lmc.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83ljeovvd0.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: ams@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1266953338 12212 80.91.229.12 (23 Feb 2010 19:28:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:28:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 23 20:28:52 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 1Nk0Q2-0004Hs-8g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:28:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38186 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nk0Pv-0004qx-KT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:27:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nk0Pa-0004hb-Bs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:27:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48310 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nk0PZ-0004h3-UI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:27:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nk0PY-0004x8-Ma for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:27:13 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:38878) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nk0OQ-0004q4-0Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:27:12 -0500 Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nk0O4-0000KF-Jh; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:25:40 -0500 In-reply-to: <83ljeovvd0.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:23:55 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.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:121307 Archived-At: > Of course, people could also provide summary lines in a ChangeLog > -- e.g., prefix a classic ChangeLog entry with a "SUMMARY:" line. > Indeed, I'd recommend that people do this, even though it's not a > part of the classic ChangeLog format (I do this sometimes when > adding a single cohesive change that touches many files); it > makes ChangeLogs easier to read and more useful. However, the "SUMMARY:" part just wastes precious real estate of the single line produced by "bzr log --line". I think Miles suggestion would strip `SUMMARY:' before putting it into a log message. Personally, I dislike this kind of behind-the-back features.