Hi, On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: > It was a dark and stormy night. Sam struggled to keep his eyelids open > as he integrated yet another gigantic patch series. Ever the optimist, > he'd pulled in the changes, only to discover several merge conflicts. > But the night was young then, and he'd fixed them all by hand. > > It was only later that he noticed many lousy, one-line commit messages. > Undaunted, he reset his branch and began to cherry-pick patches, giving > them a once-over, writing a comment here, squashing the odd grotesque > hack there, and writing sensible commit messages more often than not. > > But even that was hours ago, and each new but oh-so-familiar conflict > ate into his determination like maggots through decaying meat; and Sam > was beginning to question the wisdom of staying in this fruit business. > His whiskey was running low, and time was running out. > > "If only", thought Sam, "If only cherry-pick would..." Nice try. I have tried the whole dark and lonely night to find where in the git.git history we have some equally enlightening commit message. So in essence, it is nice what you wrote, but not a commit message. Please imitate the style of existing commit messages, especially if you want to have your patch applied. Ciao, Dscho -- 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
