Re: Experimental repositories on git.gnome.org

["Jason D. Clinton" <me jasonclinton com>]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Sandy Armstrong
<sanfordarmstrong gmail com> wrote:
> Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not really sure I understand why file
> name references are being removed.  I guess you have a shorter message, but
> you have basically no context when you run `git log` to see what's been
> going on.  The example you give above is pretty meaningless to me, and I'm
> pretty sure it would be hard to follow a similar message in modules I
> maintain or contribute to.
>
> Is this the common convention in projects using git?

git log --stat's default output is more informative. There are
additional log parameters that can be used to track even more
information. This is possible because DVCS's track *changes*, not
*files*.