Re: Moving to git

[Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>]

On 08/20/2015 06:32 PM, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 03:31:52PM -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
> > If we're going to migrate to git (I hope so), can we also please
> > *slightly* revise the policy on commit messages, to add meaningful
> > titles to commits?
> >
> > Currently:
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/svnwrite.html#checkin says:
> >
> > "The log message for that checkin should be the complete ChangeLog entry
> > for the change."
> >
> > and the subsection "Commit the changes to the central repository" below
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/svnwrite.html#example
> > has an example showing this.
> >
> >
> > In the git world, the first line of the commit message has special
> > meaning, being treated as the "title" of the commit.
>
> It would be nice if we could use a real commit message, not just a short
> title line; for example, people who prepare their patches in git already
> have that, and use it with format-patch as you say.

I think that's what David was suggesting; a short title line, followed 
by a blank line, followed by a more substantive commit message.

This change doesn't need to be tied to the git transition; it could 
happen either before or after.

> And many bonus points
> if we don't have to repeat the changelog in the commit message (it's in
> the commit already, the bugzilla hook could just pull it from out there).
>
> Or we could have another discussion about if we want to have changelogs
> at all...

That's a good question, but I think it's definitely independent.

Jason