From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:42:02 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] git-submodule: New subcommand 'summary' (2) - show commit summary Message-ID: <7vwsog9ls5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <46dff0320803052156u374d70c1i45f7789233beb32c@mail.gmail.com> "Ping Yin" writes: >> 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."