Commit messages and the move to git

[Richard Sandiford]

"Richard Earnshaw (lists)" <Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com> writes:
> 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...

+1 for having this (not that it's a vote).  Of the two extremes,
the git-svn squashed-clog summaries aren't readable and something
ultra-conservative like "SVN commit rNNNNN" wouldn't be useful in
--oneline output.  The scripted summaries seem like a nice compromise
between the two.  I don't think it matters if the script happens to
generate a few misleading summaries here and there, given that it
preserves the original message as well.

Thanks,
Richard