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
