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Re: Commit messages and the move to git
Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>:
> Well, I was thinking of also giving some clue of what the commit was
> about. One possibly cut-off line accomplishes that, a simple revision
> number not so much.
It's conventional under Git to have comments lead with a summary sentence.
I think you're going to find that the value of Subversion revision references
fades pretty fast after the conversion. That has been my experience with
other conversions.
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