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Re: git commit messages?
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Ulrich Drepper<drepper@redhat.com> wrote:
> Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> Did we decide upon a standard git commit message format?
>
> The git commit messages should be descriptive and not just repeat the
> ChangeLog entry. ?The latter should be written as before. ?The former
> can be a single line or a more extensive text, depending on the problem.
> ?To help git tools, multi-line commit messages should have the second
> line empty. ?The BZ number should be in the commit message, too, but not
> as the sole content of the first line (as the automatic converter
> arranged it).
Thanks, I've documented this on the wiki.
Cheers,
Carlos.