On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 09:21:07PM +0200, Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 07:39:41PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Sorry to flood you with patches, but after some testing here's a further > > patch that produces slightly neater output: it's generally good not to > > make summary lines of changesets too long, so, if the summary would > > exceed 72 characters or be on multiple lines, this patch produces a > > shorter summary by cutting it off at the last bit of whitespace before > > that and replacing the rest with "...", and uses the full text of the > > message as the log message. > > I like the idea, I wonder if makes sense to turn this into a commandline > option > (I guess tla's file-diffs are rather verbose, right?) as usually svn/cvs diff > output isn't that long.
It's not about the verbosity of tla's file-diffs; it's simply if you've written a longish changelog entry. Arch changesets have separated "summary" and "log" fields, unlike CVS or Subversion, so I think it makes sense to use them. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
