Re: [PATCH] display shortlog after git-commit

Quoting Junio C Hamano [off-list ref]:
Subject: Re: [PATCH] display shortlog after git-commit

"Michael S. Tsirkin" [off-list ref] writes:

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I think a much better thing you could do is to have a mode that
the commit log message editor is started with something like
this...

This would work well for author information, but less well for shortlog.

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	----------------------------------------------------------------
	From: A U Thor [off-list ref]
     Subject: << one line summary of the commit comes here >>
        
	<< more detailed explanations come here >>
	# Please enter the commit message for your changes.
     # (comment lines starting with '#' will not be included)

Care to share your reasoning behind "less well for shortlog" part?

I think a template like the above makes absolutely clear that
your log would look like a single summary line, and a separate
body of text that explains your change fully, and I do not
understand your concern.

I confess that I forget to add shortlog line myself sometimes,
and I feel that adding stuff inside comments won't help me
remember since I'm used to ignoring it.

Current git commit output looks like this:
	Created commit 2b7ca2abf7526f13ce334475e0c66f79fbb5c206
	1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

And I wander why does it tell me the new commit hash -
wouldn't displaying the subject make more sense?
Something like

	Created commit "Make foobar faster by caching more barbar in foo"
	1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

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