Re: Header lines of commit messages

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:08:51 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> 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