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From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Cc: "Keller, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>,
	"sbeller@google.com" <sbeller@google.com>,
	"dev+git@drbeat.li" <dev+git@drbeat.li>,
	"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"paulus@samba.org" <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: Add a "Copy commit summary" command
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:59:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xrKc_t6_ntc0jFoHJgYrira74+swqy5kFuuFn_gC9Ft2Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cTf3WDHf++Ck-SXgY4LRm7WRLLk2BvewUQZktfdpHL4BA@mail.gmail.com>

Agreed. I haven't seen "commit" used much in the past, and you can
easily type that out as it is.

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Keller, Jacob E
> <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> wrote:
>> 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..."
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      reply	other threads:[~2015-07-16  1:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-14 16:42 [PATCH] gitk: Add a "Copy commit summary" command dev+git
2015-07-14 20:34 ` Stefan Beller
2015-07-15 22:24   ` Keller, Jacob E
2015-07-15 23:58     ` Eric Sunshine
2015-07-16  0:59       ` Jacob Keller [this message]

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