On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, Brian Huffman wrote:
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Makarius <[email protected]> wrote:
For some reason, many people have started to sequeze everything in a single
line (frequent), or imitate the headline/body text format of other projects
with a completely different structure (rare). The reason might be as
profane as the default web style of Mercurial, but at least on
http://isabelle.in.tum.de/repos/isabelle the display follows the usual
Isabelle format.
It seems that viewing the "changelog" style preserves the line-breaks
in commit messages.
http://isabelle.in.tum.de/repos/isabelle/log/
But the "shortlog" style doesn't; it concatenates everything onto one line.
http://isabelle.in.tum.de/repos/isabelle/shortlog/
If most other Isabelle developers are like me, they probably look at
the "shortlog" style most of the time, and the style of commit
messages imitates what they see on the web interface.
If you want people to use linebreaks in their commit messages, it
would probably be a good idea to actually display them in the
"shortlog" view. Maybe you could add the "addbreaks" filter to the
shortlog theme in hgweb?
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Theming
I did spend a lot of effort on the "theming" -- both 2 years ago when we
started with Mercurial, and this year after some updates of Mercurial.
The setup of "shortlog" follows the idea of a "short log", without
linebreaks, while the longer formats do give the line breaks.
What I am trying to point out here again is that the maintenance of the
system is a huge effort. This can be simplified by following a few
trivial rules. The changelog history is one of the main assets, even more
important than the quality of the tip version of the sources, because the
history is fully persistent and cannot be modified later on.
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