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Re: commit mail subject format


From: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:28:53 -0700

Peter Avalos wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 02:32:32PM +0100, Matthias Schmidt wrote:
>> He,
>>
>> * Aggelos Economopoulos wrote:
>>> Why do we need all this stuff in the message Subject? The "DragonFly-"
>>> part is essentially wasted space (gee, like I need to be reminded which
>>> folder I'm reading), space that could be used for something useful.
>> Completely agree with Aggelos.  What was wrong with the
>> master <files> <commit id> line?
>>
>> Especially the string generated by git-describe is IMO a waste of space. What
>> is so special if one can see that we are n commits ahead of 2.1.1 ?
> 
> I agree with this.  To go even further, why not have the subject
> actually say wihat the commit is?  A commit message should be
> structured with the first line acting as a subject, so why not put that
> in the subject of the email?  That way we can actually see what the
> commit does, rather than numbers and letters that aren't really telling
> me whether I should read that email or not.

I like this.

How about this:

branch: Commit summary line (id)

and maybe drop id alltogether.

cheers
  simon

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