From: Ping Yin Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:56:21 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] git-submodule: New subcommand 'summary' (2) - show commit summary Message-ID: <46dff0320803052156u374d70c1i45f7789233beb32c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7v3ar4lcgf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Ping Yin" writes: > > > ... I think showing 2 (the head and tail one) should make more sense > > > since the head one would be "Initial add ..." in many cases which > > doesn't make much sense for the user. > > Why would you want to see the bottom one? I still don't understand. > > And I do not mean this as a rhetorical question. I am here to learn and > I would like to make sure that I do not make a suggestion based on wrong > understanding of what the user wants to see. > > I probably am lacking imagination to think of a good use scenario that > showing the bottom one would be useful to the user, and you as the author > of this patch must thought about what the user want much more than me. > Showing the bottom one can give the user an impression where the submodules goes at first glance if the user is familiar with the developing progress of the submodule. However, i don't have very strong point on this and just think it seems good when i type 'git log' (i have make the summary go into the commit message) -- Ping Yin