From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:23:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] revert: prettify fatal messages
Message-ID: <CALkWK0m+us0rCx61+SwSsKuO7qK5mbCs0MpoAzB4ja=wBA+Xjw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vvcqkswpu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

Matthieu Moy wrote:
> (I just misread the subject line at first, and understood that this was> a revert of an earlier commit, while this is actually a commit touching> the "revert" part of Git)
Reminds me of an earlier note Jonathan made about the git-revert
commit message format.  To avoid confusion, reverts should always look
like the following:

  Revert [commit message]

  This reverts commit [unabbreviated sha1 hex].

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
>>  Candidate for 'maint'?
>
> Too minor to matter when 'master' is already at -rc2.

Ah, I haven't been paying much attention to these release cycles.  I
suppose we can put this patch in `master` after the release?  I wince
everytime I see these ugly fatal messages: it happens shockingly often
while testing :)

Thanks.

-- Ram