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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Beat Bolli <dev+git@drbeat.li>, Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>,
	Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] gitk: align the commit summary format to the documentation
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 11:24:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqoa4fgzhv.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1472230741-5161-1-git-send-email-dev+git@drbeat.li> (Beat Bolli's message of "Fri, 26 Aug 2016 18:59:00 +0200")

Beat Bolli <dev+git@drbeat.li> writes:

> In 175d38c (SubmittingPatches: document how to reference previous commits,
> 2016-07-28) the format for referring to older commits was specified.
>
> Make the text generated by the "Copy commit summary" command match this
> format.

Hmph.  I didn't know gitk already had its own command to produce a
short string.  I actually think what it produces

> In 175d38c ("SubmittingPatches: document how to reference previous commits",
> 2016-07-28) the format for referring to older commits was specified.

is easier to read when pasted into a sentence than what the recent
update 175d38ca ("SubmittingPatches: document how to reference
previous commits", 2016-07-28) suggests to do, i.e.

> In 175d38c (SubmittingPatches: document how to reference previous commits,
> 2016-07-28) the format for referring to older commits was specified.

Heiko, Stefan, I think you two were involved in adding that new
paragraph.   What do you think?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-08-26 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-26 16:59 [PATCH 1/2] gitk: align the commit summary format to the documentation Beat Bolli
2016-08-26 16:59 ` [PATCH 2/2] SubmittingPatches: hint at gitk's "Copy commit summary" command Beat Bolli
2016-08-26 18:27   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-27  3:58     ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-26 18:24 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-08-26 19:16   ` [PATCH 1/2] gitk: align the commit summary format to the documentation Stefan Beller
2016-08-26 20:27     ` Beat Bolli
2016-08-26 21:27       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-26 22:29         ` Stefan Beller
2016-08-27  7:21   ` Johannes Sixt
2016-08-29 18:17     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-29 18:30       ` Jeff King

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