From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:20:56 GMT
Subject: Re: cherry-pick -x formats the message incorrectly
Message-ID: <7vpqu5gjmv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20101116T100730-967@post.gmane.org>

Martin Svensson <martin.k.svensson@netinsight.se> writes:

> Now that's not good, because it is a two-line summary. In my opinion, the
> parentheses should _always_ end up in the detailed part.
> It should be:
>
>   foo
>   
>   (cherry picked from commit eb42a6475d2c2e4fff7a1b626ce6e27eec21e886)
>
> Am I right?

I tend to agree (modulo s/summary/subject/ would be the wording I would
have used).

This falls into "patches welcome" category, though.  I do not think
anybody sane is still using cherry-pick with -x option these days after
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/28378