From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] change default for status.submoduleSummary to true
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 23:04:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqmvc37120.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170330012025.22122-1-sbeller@google.com> (Stefan Beller's message of "Wed, 29 Mar 2017 18:20:25 -0700")
Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
> A user complained about the workflow with submodules:
>> Re submodules pain, I've seen a lot of people get confused about
>> how and when to commit submodule changes. The main thing missing
>> in the related UIs is some way to summarize the subproject commit
>> diff in a human readable way. Maybe last log message would be better
>> than just sha?
>
> We could advise all the confused users to turn on
> status.submoduleSummary. However there is no downside from turning
> it on by default apart from a slight change in behavior and bit
> longer output of git-status and the help in git-commit.
Is "there is no downside" substantiated or just hand-waving?
Any pros-and-cons analysis, e.g. performance implications, etc.?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-30 6:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-30 1:20 [RFC PATCH] change default for status.submoduleSummary to true Stefan Beller
2017-03-30 1:33 ` Jacob Keller
2017-03-30 6:04 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-03-30 18:02 ` Stefan Beller
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