On 6 October 2017 at 14:02, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Martin Ågren <martin.agren@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On 6 October 2017 at 04:01, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Martin Ågren <martin.agren@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> >>>> v2: Except for the slightly different documentation in cache.h, this is >>>> a squash of the last two patches of v1. I hope the commit message is >>>> better. >>> >>> Yeah, it is long ;-) but readable. >> >> "Long but readable"... Yeah. When I rework the previous patch (document >> the closing-behavior of `do_write_index()`) I could address this. I >> think there are several interesting details here and I'm not sure which >> I'd want to leave out, but yeah, they add up... > > I didn't mean "long is bad" at all in this case. > > Certainly, from time to time we find commits with overlong > explanation that only states obvious, and they are "long and bad". > But I do not think this one falls into the same category as those. Ok, thanks. I've got a rerolled series running through the final checks right now. I did end up making this log message a bit more succinct.