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Re: Commit messages and the move to git
- From: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- To: "Richard Earnshaw (lists)" <Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 09:04:41 -0700
- Subject: Re: Commit messages and the move to git
- References: <f54f97d0-ed07-bfd6-ce1d-1f5e498f9697@arm.com>
On 11/4/19 3:29 AM, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:
> With the move to git fairly imminent now it would be nice if we could
> agree on a more git-friendly style of commit messages; and, ideally,
> start using them now so that the converted repository can benefit from
> this.
>
> Some tools, particularly gitk or git log --oneline, can use one-line
> summaries from a commit's log message when listing commits. It would be
> nice if we could start adopting a style that is compatible with this, so
> that in future commits are summarized in a useful way. Unfortunately,
> some of our existing commits show no useful information with tools like
> this.
I'd suggest we sync policy with glibc. They're further along on the
ChangeLog issues. Whatever they do in this space we should follow --
aren't we going to be using some of their hooks/scripts?
jeff