On 07-05-2010 18:38:42 +0200, Stefan Manegold wrote: > On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 06:31:21PM +0200, Jan Rittinger wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I think the subject format of the checkin message mail could be improved by > > changing the format from 'MonetDB: <log-message> (<branch>)' or sometimes > > 'MonetDB: <partial log-message>...' to 'MonetDB (<branch>): <log-message>' > > or 'MonetDB (<branch>): <partial log-message>...'. > > FYI: > > Mercurial uses the first line of checkin messages as summary in (e.g.) logs, > etc. and as email subject. > > It depends on the committer how useful this first line (or "partial > log-message") in isolation, and hence, the summary and email subject is > --- in particular for other --- but that holds for the complete checkin > message, too ...
If the first line is too long (like a full page) the line is truncated by the script, guess that's what Jan refers too. Makes sense from a mail point of view. > (Sjoerd pointed this out in his Mercurial intorduction during MADAM and in > his MonetDB-Mercirial document.) > > > In short I vote for switching the order of <log-message> and <branch> in > > the subject. > > Fabian patched the Mercurial setup to add the brnach to the checkin email > subject. I guess, he can also prepend instead of append it. > > Would be fine by me. (In fact, I like your suggestion ;-)) Ok, that makes the score already 2 then :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Monetdb-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-developers
