From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Richard Earnshaw (lists)" <Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com>
Cc: Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>, Eric Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>,
Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>,
GCC Development <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Commit messages and the move to git
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 17:25:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191202172501.GD24609@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df0f282e-bc89-42ab-5c6d-27a34b73f5da@arm.com>
On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 04:18:59PM +0000, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:
> On 02/12/2019 15:35, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 10:54:17AM +0000, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:
> >> - author attributions are sometimes incorrect - reported
> >
> > This would disqualify that "conversion", for me at least. Keeping all
> > warts we had in SVN is better than adding new lies, lies about important
> > matters even.
> Indeed, but it's easy to turn off the option that tries to do this, if
> it can't be made to work correctly. We'd then be back with the existing
> 'author == committer' situation.
But we need to be *sure* this is done correctly. The only safe thing
to do is to turn off all such options, if we cannot trust them.
> >> - certain key words in otherwise not very useful summary lines are
> >> also spotted and used to add [revert] or [backport] annotations to
> >> the summary.
> >
> > You won't see tags like that from anyone who uses the normal git commit
> > flows: the piece of the mail subject between [] is deleted.
>
> Well, true if you use "git am" without the -k or -b options; false
> otherwise. We have plenty of existing patches in the repo that have
> tags like this, though it doesn't appear to be the 'git way' I grant you.
Yes, "the normal commit flows" :-)
> We could extend the script to rewrite all [tag] attributions in tag:
> form, but I'm not really sure it's worth it.
Sure; I'm just saying rewriting old commit messages in such a style that
they keep standing out from new ones is a bit of a weird choice.
> >> No changes are made to the main commit log, if we add a new summary
> >> line, the entire original text is kept.
> >
> > That is good (an important requirement even).
>
> Yes, I even steer clear of trimming blank lines at the head or tail of
> the message, but it's possible that reposurgeon might do that itself later.
> The real question at this point is whether or not these commit summaries
> are better than the existing ones. Personally, I think they are (or I
> wouldn't have spent the time working on this), but I'm not the only
> person with an interest here...
Thanks for the effort, regardless of the outcome!
Segher
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2019-11-04 10:29 Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-04 12:11 ` Arnaud Charlet
2019-11-04 12:43 ` Martin Jambor
2019-11-04 17:43 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-04 16:04 ` Jeff Law
2019-11-04 16:18 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-05 15:48 ` Richard Earnshaw
2019-11-07 14:27 ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-11-08 13:43 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-09 6:01 ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-11-18 15:32 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-18 15:55 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-18 16:48 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-18 17:11 ` Segher Boessenkool
[not found] ` <8c32c288-e9e6-b01b-7911-3f186116da85@gmail.com>
2019-11-18 17:24 ` Nicholas Krause
2019-11-18 17:26 ` Nicholas Krause
2019-11-18 17:46 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-18 17:49 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-18 17:55 ` Nicholas Krause
2019-11-18 18:05 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-18 18:24 ` Joseph Myers
2019-11-19 11:26 ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-11-19 11:25 ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-11-19 11:46 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-19 19:32 ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-11-19 19:47 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-19 19:49 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-19 22:14 ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-11-19 22:19 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-21 16:41 ` Joseph Myers
2019-11-21 16:52 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-21 18:11 ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-11-21 18:09 ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-11-21 19:22 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-19 19:43 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-19 22:08 ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-11-18 17:38 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-18 18:53 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-18 19:14 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-18 19:21 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-18 19:44 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-18 20:53 ` Jason Merrill
2019-11-18 21:38 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-19 14:57 ` Jason Merrill
2019-11-19 16:31 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-19 16:47 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-11-19 16:48 ` Jason Merrill
2019-11-19 19:36 ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-11-19 23:29 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-19 23:44 ` Joseph Myers
2019-11-19 23:51 ` Nicholas Krause
2019-11-20 8:55 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-11-20 14:50 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2019-11-20 17:30 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-20 8:58 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-11-20 11:27 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-20 11:30 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-20 11:42 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-20 14:25 ` Jason Merrill
2019-11-20 16:01 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-19 16:49 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-02 10:54 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-02 15:35 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-12-02 16:19 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-02 17:25 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2019-12-02 17:47 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-02 18:00 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-12-02 18:11 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-02 18:17 ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-12-02 20:24 ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-03 0:48 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-12-03 9:44 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-03 10:12 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-02 20:22 ` Richard Sandiford
2019-12-04 23:52 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-05 10:26 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-05 10:32 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-05 10:36 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-05 10:41 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-05 10:54 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-05 13:18 ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-05 17:10 ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-12-05 17:22 ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-05 17:45 ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-12-05 20:14 ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-05 20:46 ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-05 21:14 ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-12-05 21:13 ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-12-05 15:33 ` Eric S. Raymond
2019-12-18 23:43 ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-19 0:01 ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-19 9:27 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-19 11:05 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-19 11:50 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-19 11:58 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-19 12:23 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-19 12:33 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-19 12:35 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-19 12:42 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-19 13:34 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-19 16:00 ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-19 16:06 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-19 14:29 ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-19 15:17 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-19 15:20 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-19 15:44 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-19 15:47 ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-19 15:48 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-19 15:48 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-12-19 15:49 ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-19 16:27 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-19 16:28 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-19 16:33 ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-19 16:39 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-19 16:43 ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-20 20:30 ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-20 21:30 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-20 21:41 ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-20 22:11 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-20 22:58 ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-20 23:23 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-12-20 23:53 ` Joseph Myers
2019-12-19 11:16 ` Jakub Jelinek
2019-12-19 15:05 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-04 16:19 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-11-04 16:35 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-04 17:33 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-04 17:42 ` Joseph Myers
2019-11-04 17:50 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-05 11:07 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-11-05 11:28 ` Jason Merrill
2019-11-05 14:12 ` Marek Polacek
2019-11-05 21:40 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2019-11-05 14:50 ` David Malcolm
2019-11-05 22:08 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-05 20:16 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-05 21:01 ` Iain Sandoe
2019-11-05 2:51 ` Kewen.Lin
2019-11-05 21:42 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
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