On Mon, Nov 04 2019, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: > 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.
... > The normal convention in git is that the one line summary is essentially > the subject line of the email message that describes the patch and is > then followed by a blank line before the body of the commit message. > I wholeheartedly agree. Thanks to everyone already doing this and everyone else, please just start, adding a summary line takes just minimal effort. Martin