On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 11:41:25AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Right, I came to the same conclusion (we may even have discussed this on > > the list, I don't remember). The current "todo" format says that only > > the command and sha1 matter, and we'd be changing that. Maybe that's not > > so bad if the user has to enable the feature themselves (and clearly it > > would be incompatible with a custom format option). > > If you are in the habit of always writing 4 or more lines, the > chance that you would make a typo on the line you can correct in the > "todo" list with such a feature is at most 25% ;-). You'd think, but the distribution of typos doesn't seem to be uniform. :) I think what actually happens is that I quite often do my final proofread in my MUA, where the subject is displayed apart from the rest of the message. So I tend to gloss over it, and any errors there are more likely to make it to the list. > I think one downside is that a mere presence of such an option hints > that we somehow encourage people to commit with a title-only message. Yeah, though it might be handy for me I think it just opens up too many funny questions like this. -Peff
