Re: [PATCH] make commit message a little more consistent and conforting

Shawn Pearce [off-list ref] writes:

I do the same (diff a lot before commit) and thus find commit
outputting anything at all to be noisy and irritating.  Frankly
the new

  git-diff-tree --summary --root --no-commit-id HEAD

that Junio put on the end is already irritating.

But it was added to help users verify that commit did what they
thought it would (see 61f5cb7f).

The credit should go Pasky's way.  Add/delete/mode are rarer
events and reminding them is sensible.

We do not show the 'summary' when we are concluding a merge that
conflicted.  Otherwise you will be seeing other people's huge
changes that was just brought in.