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From: "Ping Yin" <pkufranky@gmail.com>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] git-submodule: New subcommand 'summary' (2) - show commit summary
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:56:21 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46dff0320803052156u374d70c1i45f7789233beb32c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v3ar4lcgf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Ping Yin" <pkufranky@gmail.com> writes:
>
>  > ... I think showing 2 (the head and tail one) should make more sense
>
> > since the head one would be "Initial add ..." in many cases which
>  > doesn't make much sense for the user.
>
>  Why would you want to see the bottom one?  I still don't understand.
>
>  And I do not mean this as a rhetorical question.  I am here to learn and
>  I would like to make sure that I do not make a suggestion based on wrong
>  understanding of what the user wants to see.
>
>  I probably am lacking imagination to think of a good use scenario that
>  showing the bottom one would be useful to the user, and you as the author
>  of this patch must thought about what the user want much more than me.
>
Showing the bottom one can give the user an impression where
the submodules goes at first glance if the user is familiar with the
developing progress of the submodule.

However, i don't have very strong point on this and just think it
seems good when
i type 'git log'  (i have make the summary go into the commit message)



-- 
Ping Yin

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-06  5:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-02 18:15 [PATCH v3 1/4] git-submodule: New subcommand 'summary' (1) - code framework Ping Yin
2008-03-02 18:15 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] git-submodule: New subcommand 'summary' (2) - show commit summary Ping Yin
2008-03-05 23:57   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-06  2:16     ` Ping Yin
2008-03-06  4:10       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-06  5:56         ` Ping Yin [this message]
2008-03-06 10:42           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-06 11:36             ` Ping Yin
2008-03-02 18:15 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] git-submodule: New subcommand 'summary' (3) - limit summary size Ping Yin
2008-03-06  0:24   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-06  2:24     ` Ping Yin
2008-03-07  1:50       ` Ping Yin
2008-03-02 18:15 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] git-submodule: New subcommand 'summary' (4) - Update the document Ping Yin

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