Commit messages and the move to git

[Eric S. Raymond]

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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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>