Commit messages and the move to git

[Richard Earnshaw]

On 04/11/2019 16:04, Jeff Law wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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
> 


OK, based on these discussions here's an initial proposal for some 
wording in contribute.html for the web site.  I've based it strongly on 
the libc version, mostly with some restructuring and a tweak around bug 
numbers.

R.
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