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Re: Header lines of commit messages
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
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Re: Header lines of commit messages |
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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. 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.
> In this case, org-mode is maintained outside Emacs and I'm just
> merging a fix from the original repository.
I suggest that you use the word "synch" for this purpose, as Gnus
does. I think the presence of the commit is a convenience, myself,
but it's strictly speaking not necessary in the headline if it's
present in the body of the commit notice.
> In an ideal world Emacs would be using Git, and org-mode, Gnus, ERC
> and others would just be submodules pointing to a given branch of
> the original repository.
This is actually somewhat unlikely, both for technical and social
reasons. The technical reason is that a git submodule points to a
commit, not to a branch.
The social reason is that almost certainly Emacs will insist on
control of content of releases, and it's possible that in pre-release
branches the Emacs version of org-mode will not correspond exactly to
any commit in the upstream repository, and surely not to the tip of
any actively developed branch.
It's not a big deal from your point of view, but technically it means
that the view in logs and $VCS viewers would probably be just as
complicated.
- 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 <=
- 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, 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