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[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/9/10 Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com>:
> 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.
>

I'm not suggesting using it as the sole basis for merging; that would
be wrong as you say.  But having a summary line better than 2009-08-27
 Matthias Klose  <doko at ubuntu.com> or 2009-09-09  Andrew Haley
<aph at redhat.com> would mean you can make a more educated guess as to
whether it's worth looking at the entire changeset.

You're always going to get this 1-line summary regardless, it would be
good to have it as something sensible.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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