From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:21:07 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] make commit message a little more consistent and conforting Message-ID: <7vmz5pvx4c.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20061215154025.GF17860@spearce.org> Shawn Pearce writes: > 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.