From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] git-submodule: New subcommand 'summary' (2) - show commit summary Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:42:02 -0800 Message-ID: <7vwsog9ls5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1204481710-29791-1-git-send-email-pkufranky@gmail.com> <1204481710-29791-2-git-send-email-pkufranky@gmail.com> <7vk5kgiv0v.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <46dff0320803051816x5b957da0m6396d31cad8b4116@mail.gmail.com> <7v3ar4lcgf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <46dff0320803052156u374d70c1i45f7789233beb32c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Ping Yin" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 06 11:43:37 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JXDZ7-0007VO-41 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:43:09 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757476AbYCFKmT (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 05:42:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758189AbYCFKmS (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 05:42:18 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:43898 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757944AbYCFKmR (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 05:42:17 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 063AA1817; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 05:42:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 485E51816; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 05:42:11 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: "Ping Yin" 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."