Commit messages and the move to git

[Jeff Law]

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