[Bug 1370] New: org.openmoko.dev git commitlog . . . difficult to read/skim

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Fri Apr 25 23:32:22 CEST 2008


http://bugzilla.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1370

           Summary: org.openmoko.dev git commitlog  . . . difficult to
                    read/skim
           Product: Site Infrastructure
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Lists
        AssignedTo: gismo at openmoko.org
        ReportedBy: cwixon at usa.net
                CC: buglog at lists.openmoko.org


This may be a matter of personal preference, but I found it far easier to browse
the openmoko svn commitlog when the patched file was listed in the subject line
rather than the new git revision number, which is basically human-unreadable.

So, to give some examples, this is good:

  25 Apr 15:47  thomas  r4398 - in trunk/src/target/opkg: libopkg tests

. . . because I can see who made the commit, what package was affected, and
there's a human-readable sequence number.

And this is not too helpful:

  25 Apr 08:36  oe  org.openmoko.dev: f29e2561976b51ce011555b5e1c6812affdb781e

. . . because all messages come from "oe" and say nothing about what was
patched.  So I have to open and read all of them to see if there's anything that
is affecting what I am working on.

Also in the git commitlog, at the end of the message, the patch is presented
without (apparent) newlines, so it's one giant blob of text.

I don't know how configurable this is, but I think there's room for improvement
if it can be done.



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