Option to show commit descriptions

[jiku]

For when someone commits with a "WIP" message, just to add an essay description.

[paulirish]

good idea, but i'm not sure if the format parameter can support that https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log

[jiku]

Something like

...
%(color:black) %(color:reset)|%(contents:subject)
%(color:black) %(color:reset)|%(contents:body)%0a"

works, but seems hard to conditionally add extra newlines and stuff to make it more readable. (git log - Is it possible to dynamically generate git log format? - Stack Overflow)

[paulirish]

Hmm this isn't what I expected.

This would help in the case that the commit message said "WIP" but then they left a longform commit description right under that? That seems unlikely.

[jiku]

Yeah. Maybe not as brief as "WIP", but something like git commit -m "Changes to folds. WIP." -m "Explains why, what's left to do, adds references, etc.". Done from tools having a message char limit (warning), encouraging use of description. I do that on experimental branches, and it's often unclear even to future me what's going on until I see the description, in spite of the combination of branch name, changes and commit messages like the above.

Maybe most don't (need to) clarify stuff with descriptions, or do it with code annotations or files/tools (MD's, imdone and the like), with the intent of removing any fluff when squashing upstream. So I'll just close and use a fork. Thanks. :)

[paulirish]

alright man. sounds good. Thanks for explaining!