Commit messages and the move to git

[Segher Boessenkool]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 09:25:19AM -0500, Jason Merrill wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 6:27 AM Segher Boessenkool <
> segher@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> 
> > It would be good if whatever convention we do for commit messages and
> > their first line would be machine parseable as well.
> 
> The first line should be useful to humans, machines can parse the whole
> message.

Yeah, agreed.  And thinking more about this made me think it would work
best to use some to-the-side database for this...  Just a grep or similar,
on some text file you need to prepare once after the conversion.  This
also is much faster than grepping git output :-)

So we are back to having a very guesswork subject for very many commits.


Segher