Re: inaccurate commit message message?

From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 4, 2010, 23:07 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=eK4qt7KLg7z-3vqV+hgUoW_xire6WftBJAYku@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=Vb2cQHPo388m9HYVdYkk3XC_-pM9bm182PWyf@mail.gmail.com>

Heya,

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 17:55, Ramana Kumar <ramana.kumar@gmail.com> wrote:

> The documentation, both in man git-commit and in the commit message
> message, is misleading when you do git commit --verbose.

Correct.

> My proposal is to make it less misleading, by saying in at least one,
> and ideally both, of those places what you just told me for the first
> time: when you do a git commit --verbose, the diff lines and
> everything after will be ignored for the commit message.

Sounds like a good idea. See builtin/commit.c around line 660. You'll want to check for the verbose flag and adjust the message printed there accordingly. See Documentation/SubmittingPatches.txt on how to submit patches.

Please do ask if you have any questions, I'd be glad to help.

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier