Here is a trivial working example of what I mean:
http://abiliojr.homenet.org:20003/cleantimeline/timeline
If you see carefully there are some commits with ellipsis at the end,
hovering with the mouse over the comment of that commit, you'll see the
full comment as a tooltip.
This was ugly done by introducing the following javascript quick and dirty
hack on the footer:
> <script>
var comments = document.getElementsByClassName("timelineComment");
var i;
for (i = 0; i < comments.length; i++) {
var fullText = comments[i].textContent.trim();
var description = "";
var descriptionStart = fullText.search('\n');
if (descriptionStart !== -1) {
comments[i].setAttribute('title', fullText);
comments[i].textContent = fullText.split('\n', 1)[0] + '...';
}
}
</script>
Needs to be done in a cleaner way. Also, the tooltip can be drawn in a
more beautiful way (e.g., http://www.menucool.com/tooltip/css-tooltip)
Can anyone else see the usefulness of this idea (if also available in the
command line)?
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Abilio Marques <abili...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I know, I know, here we go again looking to git, but this is a question
> concerning clean comments on commits.
>
> When using git, you're suggested to write comments in the form of:
>
> Subject Line (recommended as short, 50 to 75 characters long single line)
>
> Description (whatever you want to put here)
>
>
>
> Then you can do git log (and get the timeline with all the descriptions
> included, keeping the newlines visible), or git log --oneline, to print
> just the subject.
>
>
> Fossil lets you add a multi-line comment, by making fossil ci, without
> passing the -m parameter. It then proceeds to store the newlines in the
> database, but then the newlines are not displayed.
>
> I've been trying to do this at least on the fossil web server timeline
> results, but my knowledge of CSS is limited, and even so, I believe it
> would be an ugly CSS patch.
>
> I believe having the flexibility of making more verbose descriptions while
> keeping the subject line clean is a "best practice" that could be useful.
> Am I wrong about that?
>
> Am I missing something from the settings or something that can produce
> those results?
>
>
>
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