Commit comments - call for opinions

[Richard Eisenberg]

I personally prefer seeing the whole commit message, if only because including it is more prominent than just a mention. Commits are really important, and should be made to stand out beyond just a mention. Not sure if this is worth yet more custom tooling, though.

Richard

> On Feb 8, 2019, at 7:04 PM, Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org> wrote:
> 
> Matthew Pickering <matthewtpickering at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I am in favor of option b) as it fits in better with the "gitlab way
>> of things". If we are to use gitlab then we should use it as it's most
>> intended rather than trying to retrofit trac practices which have
>> accrued over many years.
>> 
>> Adding commits as comments is just a hack in trac to work around
>> missing native support for the fundamental operation of linking a
>> commit to.
>> 
> Well, I'm not sure that's *entirely* true.
> 
>> I don't really see that it is much more inconvenient to click on a
>> link to see the commit, the hash can be hovered over to see the commit
>> title.
>> 
> I can see Simon's point here; Trac tickets generally tell a story,
> consisting of both comments as well as commit messages. It's not clear
> to me why the content of the former should be more visible than that of
> the latter. They both tell equally-important parts of the story.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> - Ben
> 
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