From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:14:55 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] make commit message a little more consistent and conforting Message-ID: <7vvekdvxeo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Nicolas Pitre writes: > 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