RFC: Better commit messages for libstdc++

Ville Voutilainen ville.voutilainen@gmail.com
Mon Sep 30 14:56:00 GMT 2019


On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 at 17:01, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> With the conversion from Subversion to Git now scheduled for the end
> of this year (see https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GitConversion for the
> plans) I think it's time to consider a policy for better commit
> messages.
>
> I want all commits to libstdc++ to include a one-line summary message,
> with a blank line before the rest of the message. This should be a
> hard requirement. We can do this now, we don't need to wait until we
> stop using Subversion. Ideally this would also be adopted for the rest
> of GCC, but I'll start with libstdc++.


+1 suggestion concurred.



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