From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 23:12:26 GMT
Subject: Re: merge summaries
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0705181611520.3890@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070518215603.GS15393@fieldses.org>



On Fri, 18 May 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> 
> I never quite understood what they're for--do they add any information
> not already available in the history?  If not, and if people still find
> them helpful anyway, then I dunno, it looks like a sign of some sort of
> failure of our history display tools.

I don't think they add much in the case of a graphical viewer, but for 
"git log", it does make it look nicer..

		Linus