Thoughts on git commit mail

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Wed Dec 23 18:29:59 UTC 2020


On 12/15/20 3:59 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
> So far I have a few possible suggestions on the git commit mail
> that I would find useful.  Mostly it consists of making it a bit
> leaner:

Another suggestion from Glen and Ed is to include the "counter"
in the subject line.  Perhaps the subject would go from:

'git: <hash> <summary>'

to:

'git <counter>:<hash> <summary>'

The <counter>:<hash> format is what mercurial uses FWIW, and seems
a sensible format to borrow.

-- 
John Baldwin


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