git summary messages

[Gedare Bloom]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Ralf Corsepius
<ralf.corsepius at rtems.org> wrote:
> On 02/22/2012 07:09 PM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>>
>> Please use proper git summary messages.
>>
>> Using the first line of ChangeLog with just a date
>> and author for the git summary is absolute rubbish
>
>
> Well, you view. IMO, depending on a VCS's internal implementation details is
> absulte rubbish.
>
> I guess you are aware it's possible to forge git authors and dates by
> accident or by violence, rsp. that is easily possible for git to loose
> authors and dates?
>
Citation needed.

>
>> and we all knew that from seeing the results of
>> the cvs->git conversion.
>
> I am having difficulties to imagine this impacted cvs->git convertion and
> believe you are making an elephant out of a mouse, as we say in German.
>
>
>> The summary line needs to contain a meaningful
>> summary.
>
> git doesn't have a concept of "summary lines" - Like CVS it has is commit
> messages (git commit -m <arg> and git commit -F <file>).
>
> It simply takes the first lines of a potentially long commit texts and uses
> this as short log, which seemingly is what is being used in vc-list mails.
>
s/summary line/short log/g

> Ralf
>
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