[PATCH] summary: Clarify output for the commit summary

Martin Geisler mg at lazybytes.net
Mon Oct 19 20:20:18 UTC 2009


Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> writes:

> On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 15:04 +0200, Martin Geisler wrote:
>> David Soria Parra <sn_ at gmx.net> writes:
>> 
>> > # HG changeset patch
>> > # User David Soria Parra <dsp at php.net>
>> > # Date 1255929284 -7200
>> > # Node ID 5b6db7d1461863da7014d2c46f8304b893b39282
>> > # Parent  220d39af2e5779879dd9a7bf3af41d787b7ef9b6
>> > summary: Clarify output for the commit summary
>> 
>> Thanks -- I added the 'files' part to all the labels instead and
>> pushed this as d097bc2d1945, which I hope you don't mind.
>> 
>> Feel free to complain if you think this is too much output -- I
>> normally only have some modified and some unknown files in my clones,
>> so it's still pretty short for me. But perhaps others have other
>> expectations?
>
> I think it's too much output. Again, extremely popular command ->
> brevity. Compare:
>
> commit: 1 modified files, 1 addeded files, 1 removed files, 1 deleted
> files, 1 unknown files, 1 unresolved files (new branch head)
>
> commit: 1 modified, 1 addeded, 1 removed, 1 deleted, 1 unknown, 1
> unresolved (new branch head)

Well, are they not both output too long? :-)

That being said, I don't really have any strong preferences about it
since I only expect to have modified and unknown files in my output.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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