Re: [PATCH] make commit message a little more consistent and conforting
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
- Date
- Dec 15, 2006, 18:21 UTC
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- <7vmz5pvx4c.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
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- <20061215154025.GF17860@spearce.org>
Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
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> I do the same (diff a lot before commit) and thus find commit > outputting anything at all to be noisy and irritating. Frankly > the new > > git-diff-tree --summary --root --no-commit-id HEAD > > that Junio put on the end is already irritating. > > But it was added to help users verify that commit did what they > thought it would (see 61f5cb7f).
The credit should go Pasky's way. Add/delete/mode are rarer events and reminding them is sensible.
We do not show the 'summary' when we are concluding a merge that conflicted. Otherwise you will be seeing other people's huge changes that was just brought in.