Re: Git feature request: mark a commit as minor

From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 3, 2015, 06:11 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xq8Ds3hYjv2x8S4v8+6F3G+ciGreiZxHxDfzzft520ChQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <560EF966.3000501@walltime.info>

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Felipe Micaroni Lalli <micaroni@walltime.info> wrote:

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> A minor change (also called "cosmetic") usually is a typo fix, doc
> improvement, a little code refactoring that don't change the behavior etc.
>
> In Wikipedia we can mark an edition as "minor".
>
> It would be nice to have an argument like "--minor" in git-commit to
> mark the commit as minor. Also, filter in git-log (like --hide-minor) to
> hide the minor changes. The git-log could be optimized to show minor
> commits more discreetly.
>
>

This should just be part of the commit message log, generally projects use something like TRIVIAL in the patch subject or similar. You could also standardize for your project(s) what would be considered a minor change. The issue is that not everyone considers these changes as "minor". You should be able to use a combination of the --grep option in log to search for all commits who don't contain that string in the right format.

Regards, Jake