Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com> writes:
> On Tue, 1 Sep 2015, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>
>> As a trivial example of the possibilities, sometimes when I do conversions
>> I fix obvious comment typos. I generally have to edit the comment history
>> anyway
>> to tweak comments that don't have git-style summary lines into shape, so
>> fixing typos is not much additional work.
>
> With 227369 revisions I don't think adding git-style summary lines is
> really practical without some very reliable automation to match commits to
> corresponding gcc-patches messages (whose Subject: headers would be the
> natural choice for such summary lines)....
And even that wouldn't work, I believe: a considerable number of patches
are submitted in the context of some thread whose patch e.g. introduced
a regression or bootstrap failure, without changing the subject. So,
unless you detect this case and make something up, the result is likely
to be confusing rather than helpful.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
