git commit message conventions

[Paul Eggert]

Florian Weimer wrote:
> I completely agree, and I think Joseph's proposal goes in that direction.

Then I'm afraid I misread the direction of the proposal.

I don't much care about whether the commit message uses ChangeLog format or some 
other format.  What I find puzzling, though, is the implication that the commit 
message should differ from the change log and that each should have its own 
specialized format.  We should allow change proposals in the form of "git 
format-patch" that log the change just once, and not require two or more 
incompatible formats (commit message, ChangeLog delta, git notes, ...) for the log.