commit mail subject format

Hasso Tepper hasso at estpak.ee
Wed Dec 3 06:29:26 PST 2008


Aggelos Economopoulos wrote:
> Search is much faster in git and also more accurate, since the repo
> also contains all the CVS history. Again, the Subject: line is intended
> to save people's time, it is not for arbitrary metadata.

Full ack here. You can put whatever metadata into body or even into mail 
headers, but subject is for me heading quickly over emails whether there 
is something interesting for me. I don't think that the mail in the 
commit list should contain anything more than "<branch>: <files>". 


just my 2c,

-- 
Hasso Tepper





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