From: Denton Liu Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 20:35:58 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] pretty: implement 'summary' format Message-ID: <20191104203558.GA8004@generichostname> In-Reply-To: Hi Eric, On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 03:16:56PM -0500, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 3:04 PM Denton Liu wrote: > > diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt > > @@ -63,6 +63,15 @@ This is designed to be as compact as possible. > > +* 'summary' > > + > > + ("", <short author date>) > > ++ > > +This format is useful for referring to other commits when writing a new > > +commit message. Although by default, '<abbrev sha1>' is used, this can > > Why does this talk about "sha1" when patch 1/8 removed references to > SHA-1 in favor of generic "hashes"? Good catch. 1/8 modified pretty-formats.txt but this message references the content in SubmittingPatches. In a future reroll, I'll submit a similar patch as 1/8 but targeting SubmittingPatches instead. Thanks, Denton > > > +be overridden with '--no-abbrev'. In addition, '<short author date>' can > > +be overridden by with '--date='.