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Re: Header lines of commit messages
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Header lines of commit messages |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Jun 2010 18:27:12 +0300 |
> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,
> address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:04:07 +0900
>
> Romain Francoise writes:
> > Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> 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.
> 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.
- Header lines of commit messages, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/06/26
- Re: Header lines of commit messages, Romain Francoise, 2010/06/26
- Re: Header lines of commit messages, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/06/26
- Re: Header lines of commit messages, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/06/26
- Re: Header lines of commit messages,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Header lines of commit messages, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/06/26
- Re: Header lines of commit messages, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/06/26
- Re: Header lines of commit messages, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/06/27
- Re: Header lines of commit messages, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/06/30
- Re: Header lines of commit messages, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/06/30