Re: [PATCH] gitk: Add a "Copy commit summary" command

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Jul 15, 2015, 23:58 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cTf3WDHf++Ck-SXgY4LRm7WRLLk2BvewUQZktfdpHL4BA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1436999097.12921.2.camel@intel.com>

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Keller, Jacob E <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, 2015-07-14 at 13:34 -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 9:42 AM,  <dev+git@drbeat.li> wrote:
>> > From: Beat Bolli <dev+git@drbeat.li>
>> >
>> > When referencing earlier commits in new commit messages or other
>> > text,
>> > one of the established formats is
>> >
>> >     commit <abbrev-sha> ("<summary>", <author-date>)
>>
>> That sounds like I would use it a lot! Thanks :)
>>
>
> Yep, quite useful. Also, the kernel suggests using it as a tag like so
>
> Fixes: <abbrev-sha> ("summary")

Dropping the literal word "commit" would make this use-case more convenient, as well as the typical use-case when composing commit messages: "Since <abrrev-sha1> ("blah", <date>), foobar.c has flabble-nabbered the wonka-doodle..."