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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: Add a "Copy commit summary" command
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 19:58:01 -0400
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On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Keller, Jacob E
<jacob.e.keller@intel.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-07-14 at 13:34 -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 9:42 AM,  <dev+git@drbeat.li> wrote:
>> > From: Beat Bolli <dev+git@drbeat.li>
>> >
>> > When referencing earlier commits in new commit messages or other
>> > text,
>> > one of the established formats is
>> >
>> >     commit <abbrev-sha> ("<summary>", <author-date>)
>>
>> That sounds like I would use it a lot! Thanks :)
>>
>
> Yep, quite useful. Also, the kernel suggests using it as a tag like so
>
> Fixes: <abbrev-sha> ("summary")

Dropping the literal word "commit" would make this use-case more
convenient, as well as the typical use-case when composing commit
messages: "Since <abrrev-sha1> ("blah", <date>), foobar.c has
flabble-nabbered the wonka-doodle..."