From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:35:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 11/13] add --always-print option
Message-ID: <7v8w5f3ysg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1278829141-11900-11-git-send-email-struggleyb.nku@gmail.com>

Bo Yang <struggleyb.nku@gmail.com> writes:

> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 11/13] add --always-print option

Please be always careful about your Subject: line.  Imagine the above
appears in the shortlog output for v1.7.8..v1.7.9 among 500 other commits;
do you expect people to be able to tell what this commit is about?

> Always print the interesting ranges even if the current
> commit does not change any line of it.

Please explain why it is a good thing to do so.