Commit messages and the move to git

[Richard Earnshaw (lists)]

On 19/11/2019 16:31, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 09:56:50AM -0500, Jason Merrill wrote:
>> Yep. I don't think we need to worry about getting optimal one-line
>> summaries for ancient commits; something reasonably unique should be plenty.
> 
> In that case, how about just "SVN rNNNNNN"?  And then we don't need the
> footer from git-svn anymore either?  And don't need to mangle or wrangle
> the commit message itself at all either.
> 
> 
> Segher
> 

Sorry, disagree.  That's as bad as just the author name, IMO.

R.