From: Pieter de Bie Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:09:17 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Builtin-commit: show on which branch a commit was added Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080921104238.GA9217@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Sorry for a late response) On 21 sep 2008, at 12:42, Jeff King wrote: > OK, I have lived with it for a little while, and I am still > annoyed. ;) > > My complaints are: > > 1. It wastes more horizontal screen real estate, making it more > likely > that the line will wrap. > > 2. In almost all of my projects (including git), I use the subject > line convention of "subsystem: one line summary". So you end up > with the visually confusing: > > Created commit abcd1234 on master: subsystem: one line summary > > which is even worse on a topic branch which is meaningful to the > project: > > Created commit abcd1234 on widget: subwidget: one line summary > > which has literally left me scratching my head wondering why I put > "widget" into the commit message. How about something like Created commit abcd1234 on widget -- "subwidget: one line summary" ? > Maybe it is better to simply break the line, which solves both > problems. > Something like: I don't like a multi-line approach.. I tried it myself, and the second line makes the first line easier to overlook - Pieter