From: Ping Yin Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:36:50 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] git-submodule: New subcommand 'summary' (2) - show commit summary Message-ID: <46dff0320803060336o4a28e4e0ve5a3f17e1323e171@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7vwsog9ls5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Ping Yin" writes: > > > >> 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. > > I think you are talking about the top one (the latest commit), and we both > know that is interesting information to show. I was asking about the most > ancient one, which often is "Initial version of frotz." > Right, we have misunderstood each other in the 'bottom' word. I thought you propose to keep the initial one, and i said the latest one make much sense than the initial one. Now we agree on that keeping the latest commit is enough. -- Ping Yin