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demerphq
Date:
January 15, 2020 07:56
Subject:
Re: request for better commit subject lines
Message ID:
CANgJU+VXtLT6w5LY4q6vGw6an6Lm+oxwA2wQw9t+-h79hy4HLQ@mail.gmail.com
On Tue, 14 Jan 2020, 22:20 Dave Mitchell, <davem@iabyn.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 06:34:21PM +0100, demerphq wrote:
> > Are you familiar with the --stat argument?
>
> Yes, but there's also:
>
>     git log --oneline
>
> which displays a single line per commit - handy when you're quickly
> scanning a range of commits looking at a glance for likely candidates for
> recent breakage, say.
>

As I said you can use them together.


> Similarly, the first line of the commit message becomes the subject line
> for perl5-changes@perl.org emails.
>

Yes. That is something that --stat can't help with. I do agree more or less
with the intent of your request, I was just pointing out that with --stat
you get a better insight than a prefix can provide.

Yves


> --
> A walk of a thousand miles begins with a single step...
> then continues for another 1,999,999 or so.
>

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