Re: Referring to revisions in the git future.

[Jan Djärv]

Hi.

> 29 okt 2014 kl. 14:49 skrev Eric S. Raymond <address@hidden>:
> 
> 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.

That is the recommendation already, and vc-mode supports it.

        Jan D.