Re: [PATCH] make commit message a little more consistent and conforting

From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Dec 15, 2006, 16:08 UTC
Message-ID: <20061215160833.GH17860@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612151032240.18171@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:

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> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Shawn Pearce wrote:
> > Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
> > > diffstats can be huge though. I'd rather have those only with -v option.
> > 
> > But they are on by default for pull/merge, and disabled by -n.
> 
> And it is true that diffstat can be quite large.  I wouldn't mind the 
> diffstat to be added to the commit message summary in the text editor 
> though.  And displaying it when -v is used makes also a lot of sense.  
> But not by default please.

OK, two votes against diffstats by default in commit. Since I haven't written a patch for it yet consider it dropped. ;-)

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