From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
To: Ramana Kumar <ramana.kumar@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: inaccurate commit message message?
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 18:07:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=eK4qt7KLg7z-3vqV+hgUoW_xire6WftBJAYku@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=Vb2cQHPo388m9HYVdYkk3XC_-pM9bm182PWyf@mail.gmail.com>
Heya,
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 17:55, Ramana Kumar <ramana.kumar@gmail.com> wrote:
> The documentation, both in man git-commit and in the commit message
> message, is misleading when you do git commit --verbose.
Correct.
> My proposal is to make it less misleading, by saying in at least one,
> and ideally both, of those places what you just told me for the first
> time: when you do a git commit --verbose, the diff lines and
> everything after will be ignored for the commit message.
Sounds like a good idea. See builtin/commit.c around line 660. You'll
want to check for the verbose flag and adjust the message printed
there accordingly. See Documentation/SubmittingPatches.txt on how to
submit patches.
Please do ask if you have any questions, I'd be glad to help.
--
Cheers,
Sverre Rabbelier
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-04 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-04 21:37 inaccurate commit message message? Ramana Kumar
2010-09-04 21:55 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-09-04 22:55 ` Ramana Kumar
2010-09-04 23:07 ` Sverre Rabbelier [this message]
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