Re: Linux v2.6.12-rc6

Linus Torvalds
2005-06-08T17:17:33Z

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>
> This also affects gitk, which takes the first line of the commit
> message as the headline. I could make gitk take the first paragraph
> (i.e. until the first blank line) as the headline but even that
> wouldn't help since you put a blank line between the "Automatic merge"
> line and the actual URL. Could you leave out that blank line in
> future, or do you have a better suggestion?

I'll just make future messages much denser. They should now be just

Merge repo

or

Merge 'name' branch of <repo>

(and I may decide to replace "branch of" with "from" to make it even
denser.)

Linus