From: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
To: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix safe_create_leading_directories() for Windows
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 21:37:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52C5CE13.2020506@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140102181857.GG7608@serenity.lan>
On 02.01.2014 19:18, John Keeping wrote:
>> That said, I see any further explanations on top of the commit message
>> title is an added bonus, and as "just" a bonus a link to a pull request
>> should be fine. You don't need to understand or appreciate the concept
>> of pull requests in order to follow the link and read the text in there.
>
> The commit message serves as an historical record of why a change was
> made; depending on an external service to provide this information when
> it can quite easily be included in the commit itself lessens the value
> of the commit message.
Sure. My point just was that IMHO the commit does not *depend* on the
information provided in the link; for me the commit was simply
self-evident, and I just added link as optional information, not to
replace any inline text that I would have written otherwise.
--
Sebastian Schuberth
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-02 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-02 17:22 [PATCH] Fix safe_create_leading_directories() for Windows Sebastian Schuberth
2014-01-02 17:33 ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-01-02 18:11 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2014-01-02 18:18 ` John Keeping
2014-01-02 20:37 ` Sebastian Schuberth [this message]
2014-01-02 20:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-01-07 15:43 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2014-01-07 17:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-01-07 21:49 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2014-01-02 19:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-02 20:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-01-02 20:48 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2014-01-02 20:54 ` [PATCH v2] " Sebastian Schuberth
2014-01-02 21:10 ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-01-02 21:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-02 21:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-02 22:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-02 21:08 ` [PATCH] " Junio C Hamano
2014-01-02 21:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-01-19 7:00 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2014-01-19 7:26 ` Sebastian Schuberth
2014-01-21 20:09 ` Junio C Hamano
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