[Asterisk-Dev] New SVN email subject

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Tuesday 29 November 2005 19:56, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Mark Hulber wrote:
> > One thing I liked about the old CVS emails was that I could see
> > what was being changed by just looking at the subject liine and
> > then I'd look if it appeared interesting.
> >    *Now:*    [asterisk-commits] trunk - commit revision 7221
> >
> >    *Then: *   [Asterisk-cvs] asterisk/channels
> > chan_sip.c,1.863,1.864
>
> Well, the problem with that is the number of files in the commit can
> be far too many for the subject to handle... and if only one file out
> of 20 is listed it may not be one you care about, so then you'd skip
> the message. It was less of an issue with CVS because it would
> generate a separate email message for each directory that got
> changes, but with SVN there will only be a single message for each
> commit.

Perhaps the first line of the commit message would be appropriate for
the Subject, as it often gives a better description of the purpose of
the commit.

-- 
Tilghman