Re: Referring to revisions in the git future.

[Eric S. Raymond]

Eric S. Raymond <address@hidden>:
> Jan Djärv <address@hidden>:
> > > 29 okt 2014 kl. 10:52 skrev Eric S. Raymond <address@hidden>:
> > > 
> > > About summary lines, a reminder: Please don't write the traditional
> > > GNUish run-on change comment with a semi-infinite number of bulleted
> > > items in it any more. We're no longer in CVS-land, commits are cheap,
> > > make them fine-grained.  
> > > 
> > 
> > When using vc-mode it is very easy to insert the ChangeLog entry. 
> > Why is that bad?
> 
> Look at a gitk listing. You'll see it.

Thinking about it, this was too short an answer.  Sorry.

A better answer is that it's fine to insert the ChangeLog entry *if you put
it after a proper self-contained summary line*.  That way, listings 
in gitk and git log -1 will make sense.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>