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comment on descriptive git-annex commit messages

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Helmut Grohne 2014-02-17 08:45:43 +01:00 • committed by Helmut Grohne
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@ -37,3 +37,19 @@ in my opinion, the messages should at least contain
>> Closing as this is literally impossible to do without making
>> git-annex worse. [[done]] --[[Joey]]
> I'm not sure that the requested feature is that far off. There are two
> aspects, that can be solved relatively easy:
>
> * Recording the name of the remote the commit was issued on. This
> information is simply constant per remote.
>
> * While it is true that there is no 1 on 1 correspondence between commands
> and git-annex commits, it would be entirely possible to add a "message
> journal". Every command issued would start out with writing its
> invocation to the message journal. At the time the journal ends up being
> committed to the git-annex branch, the message journal is used as the
> body of the commit message and truncated.
>
> It is true that these suggestions do not address every aspect of the
> original report, but they would solve about 90%. --[[HelmutGrohne]]