On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 05:57:07PM -0800, Brian Dolbec wrote: > Fixes commit 463d98fe94041313e0cb4497081858ab5d9121f3 In the Git history (git://github.com/gitster/git.git) the convention seems to be: ${SHORT_HASH} (${SUBJECT}, ${AUTHOR_DATE}) so: Fixes commit 463d98f (modules/generic_stage_target.py: Use a 'local_overlay' setting instead of hard-coding '/usr/local/portage', 2012-12-19). The benefits of including human-readable content are: * Folks don't have to look up the hash to get an idea about the referenced commit's changes. * If this commit is cherry-picked into an alternate history, the subject and author-date will be preserved, but the hash changes. > confdefaults = { > "distdir": "/usr/portage/distfiles", > "hash_function": "crc32", > + "local_overlay": "/usr/local/portage", Oops :p. Looks good to me. Cheers, Trevor -- This email may be signed or encrypted with GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org). For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy