Please don't cull Cc list. Hi, On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 12:28:06AM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: > 2010-12-01 21:45 Drew Northup <drew.northup@xxxxxxxxx>: > > On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 21:29 +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: > > > >> 2010-12-01 20:53 Drew Northup <drew.northup@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> > (lacking a commit message to tell me), WHY? [alphabetical] > >> > >> Quoting <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/162552> > >> > >> - You read from top to bottom, therefore A-Z. > >> - GNU project uses it in manual pages. It looks good, it looks > >> professional, it looks clean. And it works when searching (= no > >> oriantation problems regardless of tools; even when you print on > >> paper when you don't have any computerized aids to help your search.). > >> > >> Jari > > > > THAT belongs in a commit message!!! > > It does not. No need to clutter 10's of message that long in there.. It definitely does. People doing 'git log -- Documentation/git-add.txt' in the future will want to see it, just as well as people doing 'git log -- Documentation/git-commit.txt', or 'git log -- Documentation/git-reset.txt', or .... HtH, Gábor -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html