[ros-dev] Truncating ros-diffs subject lines

[ShadowFlare]

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 4:28 AM, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com>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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