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| author |  Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> | 2014-02-17 08:45:43 +0100 |
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| committer |  Helmut Grohne <grohne@cs.uni-bonn.de> | 2014-02-17 08:45:43 +0100 |
| commit | 443075fd383c26d267bc872d1ded1560090a5e58 (patch) | |
| tree | c360d59ae7e8e5c901d5e121a36489d61a2ddd5f /doc | |
| parent | 7ccbd5059b3864fc5e00dc572241291634b6ae20 (diff) | |
comment on descriptive git-annex commit messages
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/todo/wishlist:_more_descriptive_commit_messages_in_git-annex_branch.mdwn | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/todo/wishlist:_more_descriptive_commit_messages_in_git-annex_branch.mdwn b/doc/todo/wishlist:_more_descriptive_commit_messages_in_git-annex_branch.mdwn index 3a891fc9b..8b6350a55 100644 --- a/doc/todo/wishlist:_more_descriptive_commit_messages_in_git-annex_branch.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/wishlist:_more_descriptive_commit_messages_in_git-annex_branch.mdwn @@ -37,3 +37,19 @@ in my opinion, the messages should at least contain >> Closing as this is literally impossible to do without making >> git-annex worse. [[done]] --[[Joey]] + +> I'm not sure that the requested feature is that far off. There are two +> aspects, that can be solved relatively easy: +> +> * Recording the name of the remote the commit was issued on. This +> information is simply constant per remote. +> +> * While it is true that there is no 1 on 1 correspondence between commands +> and git-annex commits, it would be entirely possible to add a "message +> journal". Every command issued would start out with writing its +> invocation to the message journal. At the time the journal ends up being +> committed to the git-annex branch, the message journal is used as the +> body of the commit message and truncated. +> +> It is true that these suggestions do not address every aspect of the +> original report, but they would solve about 90%. --[[HelmutGrohne]] |