Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] git-submodule: New subcommand 'summary' (2) - show commit summary

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 6, 2008, 10:42 UTC
Message-ID: <7vwsog9ls5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <46dff0320803052156u374d70c1i45f7789233beb32c@mail.gmail.com>

"Ping Yin" <pkufranky@gmail.com> writes:

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>>  Why would you want to see the bottom one?  I still don't understand.
>>
>>  And I do not mean this as a rhetorical question.  I am here to learn and
>>  I would like to make sure that I do not make a suggestion based on wrong
>>  understanding of what the user wants to see.
>>
>>  I probably am lacking imagination to think of a good use scenario that
>>  showing the bottom one would be useful to the user, and you as the author
>>  of this patch must thought about what the user want much more than me.
>>
> Showing the bottom one can give the user an impression where
> the submodules goes at first glance if the user is familiar with the
> developing progress of the submodule.

I think you are talking about the top one (the latest commit), and we both know that is interesting information to show. I was asking about the most ancient one, which often is "Initial version of frotz."