Re: [PATCH v1 3/6] Per-file output for Porcelain Status V2

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 20, 2016, 20:50 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqoa5sc9ud.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1468966258-11191-4-git-send-email-jeffhost@microsoft.com>

Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com> writes:

Just to avoid later headaches... please look at your commit titles and imagine how they will look when listed among 400+ other changes when they are included in a future release in "git shortlog" output.

> Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/6] Per-file output for Porcelain Status V2

Subject: status: per-file output for --porcelain=v2

or something like that, perhaps?

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> This commit sets up version 2 porcelain status and
> defines the format of detail lines.  This includes
> the usual XY and pathname fields.  It adds the various
> file modes and SHAs and the rename score.  For regular
> entries these values reflect the head, index and
> worktree. For unmerged entries these values reflect
> the stage 1, 2, and 3 values.

Also, we usually do not say "This commit does this and that".

See Documentation/SubmittingPatches for more details regarding the above two points (and more).