Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] git-submodule: New subcommand 'summary' (2) - show commit summary

["Ping Yin" <pkufranky@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Ping Yin" <pkufranky@gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> >>  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.
>
>  I think you are talking about the top one (the latest commit), and we both
>  know that is interesting information to show.  I was asking about the most
>  ancient one, which often is "Initial version of frotz."
>
Right, we have misunderstood each other in the 'bottom'  word. I thought
you propose to keep the initial one, and i said the latest one make much
sense than the initial one.

Now we agree on that keeping the latest commit is enough.



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Ping Yin