Re: [PATCH] make commit message a little more consistent and conforting

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Dec 15, 2006, 18:14 UTC
Message-ID: <7vvekdvxeo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612151032240.18171@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

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> So in short I do think there should be something shown after a 
> successful commit, and including the commit sha1 doesn't hurt.
> ...
> And it is true that diffstat can be quite large.  I wouldn't mind the 
> diffstat to be added to the commit message summary in the text editor 
> though.  And displaying it when -v is used makes also a lot of sense.  
> But not by default please.

I agree with everything you said in your message, including that commit object name might help as a learning aid.

We could give something like this, though, if we wanted to:

	$ git commit
        4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
        mode change 100755 => 100644 test.sh