From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
To: "Keller, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Cc: "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 19:58:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPig+cTf3WDHf++Ck-SXgY4LRm7WRLLk2BvewUQZktfdpHL4BA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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:
> 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..."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-15 23:58 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 [this message]
2015-07-16 0:59 ` Jacob Keller
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