IcedTea6 1.6 Released!

[Andrew Haley]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:

> As I've mentioned before, it would be nice if we could all standardise
> on having a 1-line summary in commit messages prior to the ChangeLog,
> as this is the only line that shows up without verbose output (hg log,
> shortlog and summary pages on the web view).  It would make it easier
> to select changesets that need to be merged.

I do not believe this would, in general, be a Good Thing.

A single summary line can be misleading, so it would be irresponsible
for someone to merge changesets based on the summary.  A missing summary
line is a clue to someone merging that they really ought to look at the
whole ChangeLog entry.

While a single line summary can make sense for some things -- "Merge"
or "Added tag ..." are good examples -- I'm not sure that this
particular feature of Mercurial is useful enough to dictate how we
work.  That would be, as they say, the tail wagging the dog.

Andrew.