Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] git-submodule add: Add -r/--record option

Am Freitag, 23. November 2012, 16:55:21 schrieb Heiko Voigt:

I am still a little bit undecided about an automatically crafted commit.

At $dayjob we sometimes update submodules to their tip without any
superproject changes just to make sure we use the newest version. Most
of the time the commit messages are along the lines of "updated
submodule x to master".

On one hand Junio is right that the person updating to the newest
submodule stuff has no clue what to write in this message.

I've been thinking about that for a while, when I started using submodules. In 
the end, I concluded, that what I really want to see in the commit message, is 
something similar to $(git shortlog $OLD_SHA1..$NEW_SHA1).

I've scripted that and taught my CI-Server to do it automatically, if 
possible. So most of the time, I really don't want an "automatically crafted 
commit" whenever something causes the tip of a submodule to be at a new SHA1.

Just my $.02, though.

Sascha