Regarding the first part , i can resend those 2 patches rewriting the commit message if you want. On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 10:12 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Robert Stanca <robert.stanca7@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [GSOC] Convert signed flags to unsigned > > Try > > git shortlog --no-merges -40 > > to learn how commits are typically titled. And then imagine this > patch makes into our codebase and appear in the output. > > Can you tell what this commit is about from that single line title? > No. You wouldn't even know that it is only touching bisect.h and > nothing else. > > What do your readers want "shortlog" output to tell them about your > commit? What are the most important thing (other than giving you an > excuse to say "I have completed a microproject and now I am eligible > to apply to GSoC" ;-)? Your proposed commit log message, especially > its title, must be written to help future readers of the project > history. > > Perhaps > > bisect.h: make flags field in rev_list_info unsigned > > would help them better. > >> Unsigned int is a closer representation of bitflags rather than signed int that uses 1 special bit for sign.This shouldn't make much difference because rev_list_info.flags uses only 2 bits(BISECT_SHOW_ALL and REV_LIST_QUIET) > > Overlong lines, without space after full-stop before the second > sentence, without full-stop at the end of the sentence. > >> >> Signed-off-by: Robert Stanca <robert.stanca7@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> bisect.h | 2 +- >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/bisect.h b/bisect.h >> index acd12ef80..a979a7f11 100644 >> --- a/bisect.h >> +++ b/bisect.h >> @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ extern struct commit_list *filter_skipped(struct commit_list *list, >> >> struct rev_list_info { >> struct rev_info *revs; >> - int flags; >> + unsigned int flags; > > Have you checked how this field is used? For example, there is this > line somewhere in rev-list.c > > int cnt, flags = info->flags; > > and the reason why the code copies the value to a local variable > "flags" must be because it is going to use it, just like it and > other codepaths use info->flags, no? It makes the code inconsistent > by leaving the local variable a signed int, I suspect.