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Re: [PATCH v4] gitk: Add a "Copy commit summary" command

From
Beat Bolli <dev+git@drbeat.li>
Date
Aug 13, 2015, 19:02 UTC
Message-ID
<55CCE9C9.5070209@drbeat.li>
In-Reply-To
<20150813073708.GA17652@fergus.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On 13.08.15 09:37, Paul Mackerras wrote:
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> On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 01:15:39PM +0200, Beat Bolli wrote:
>> When referring to earlier commits in commit messages or other text, one
>> of the established formats is
>>
>>     <abbrev-sha> ("<summary>", <author-date>)
>>
>> Add a "Copy commit summary" command to the context menu that puts this
>> text for the currently selected commit on the clipboard. This makes it
>> easy for our users to create well-formatted commit references.
>>
>> The <abbrev-sha> is produced with the %h format specifier to make it
>> unique. Its length can be controlled with the gitk preference
>> "Auto-select SHA1 (length)", or, if this preference is set to its
>> default value (40), with the Git config setting core.abbrev.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Beat Bolli <dev+git@drbeat.li>
> 
> Thanks, applied.
>

Please also apply the follow-up patch in this thread [1]. It fixes menu entry numbers that were changed by this patch.

Thanks, Beat

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/275729
Previous: Paul Mackerras
Message 7 of 7 in “gitk: Add a "Copy commit summary" command”
  1. gitk: Add a "Copy commit summary" commandBeat Bolli, Jul 18, 2015
  2. Beat BolliJul 21, 2015
  3. Paul MackerrasJul 21, 2015
  4. Beat BolliJul 21, 2015
  5. gitk: adjust the menu line numbers to compensate for the new entryBeat Bolli, Aug 11, 2015
  6. Paul MackerrasAug 13, 2015
  7. Beat BolliAug 13, 2015

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