Re: Git feature request: mark a commit as minor

From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 3, 2015, 06:17 UTC
Message-ID: <CAHYJk3Qb89YhVJoOpBLYMoNJX5GvVHnJhf41Gdbtypcp+Yq96g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xq8Ds3hYjv2x8S4v8+6F3G+ciGreiZxHxDfzzft520ChQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> wrote:

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

Could also be a good use for notes, since you might want to add this markup after the fact.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson