On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 4:28 AM, Sven Barth <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 07.08.2010 14:24, Colin Finck wrote: > >> Hi everybody, >> >> Looking at >> http://www.reactos.org/pipermail/ros-diffs/2010-August/038197.html and >> the same message in Thunderbird, I now see a need to automatically >> truncate all subject lines in ros-diffs' mails to 200 characters. I >> don't think that anybody reads the full commit messages through subject >> lines, so 200 characters should be enough to identify a commit easily. >> >> If there are no objections, I'll try to change this in the next few days. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Colin >> > > Oh... I didn't see that someone already raised that topic :D > > I'd appreciate it, because I weren't able to view the message Timo wrote > without clicking "reply" so that I could see the quoted message. > > Regards, > Sven What some systems do is just take the first line of the commit message as the subject. If the first line is just a brief summary and the lengthy explanation follows on another line, this works well. -ShadowFlare
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