Re: git commit -a -m'avoid an unnecessary sub-shell'

[Jim Meyering]

Bruce Korb wrote:
> On 01/04/11 10:12, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Hmm... I see you didn't push the same commit I suggested.
>
> Hmmm.  I'm sorry.  I actually clipped your change log and
> copied what I had done previously for the actual fix.
> I didn't notice we'd patched it differently.
>
> RE:
>> It's a good policy to prefix the one-line summary with "module-name: ",
>
> meaning to add "git-version-gen: "

Yes, in case there's a next time, that would be better.
It's not a hard and fast rule, but when it makes sense...
To get a sample of existing one-line summaries, run e.g.,

  git shortlog -60