From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 11/13] add --always-print option Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:35:43 -0700 Message-ID: <7v8w5f3ysg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1278829141-11900-1-git-send-email-struggleyb.nku@gmail.com> <1278829141-11900-11-git-send-email-struggleyb.nku@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Bo Yang X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 13 22:35:58 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYmCr-0002aI-Da for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:35:57 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755175Ab0GMUfw (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:35:52 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:43707 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753168Ab0GMUfv (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:35:51 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4359C4FD7; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:35:49 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=j5kLxksy18EAEDFOBwywTZZvFOw=; b=h/cNC3 MvglaVv4wlFiqT0+As3Wo/UL5GkCshjuPH3qlgg5SHhGs40E++owEaHzm6Jwo2LO Jpt4DbATqnMehv+twJ8VEzuRkBNfb7Kb+5BVS4dZQUczxtzzWdG9yQI9cVK94aHF 4jrnoAKcJ8eaJcDxgko1ATV07OjZloCZHNE1I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=npZYLcHskGT1+Rua+rV7g3qjtwSsjtO0 35D6XeyNRWIcSbYVkKfKUwoaIQ4uc9Dn3B0DQSbnDIbxxWaOg8wQdRIC578kKPeX t8sFqO3nXrFeUIe1drexfQtRjoUlGF/jaXEd729oPnsowBmZd26aRJyKH17qTUt1 fR04qkF9XUc= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A070FC4FD6; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:35:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [69.181.135.33]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 01D40C4FD1; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:35:44 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <1278829141-11900-11-git-send-email-struggleyb.nku@gmail.com> (Bo Yang's message of "Sun\, 11 Jul 2010 14\:18\:59 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 37D903A4-8EBE-11DF-9665-9056EE7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Bo Yang writes: > Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 11/13] add --always-print option Please be always careful about your Subject: line. Imagine the above appears in the shortlog output for v1.7.8..v1.7.9 among 500 other commits; do you expect people to be able to tell what this commit is about? > Always print the interesting ranges even if the current > commit does not change any line of it. Please explain why it is a good thing to do so.