On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <beh...@behdad.org> wrote: > On 03/31/2009 03:50 PM, David Zeuthen wrote: >> >> Personally I prefer non-capital and no periods; it makes the output of >> 'git log |git shortlog' nicer to look at (see [1] for an example) but >> maybe that's just me. I think capital letters would work nice here too; >> trailing periods would probably look weird though. > > While I prefer to capitalize sentence starters, NOT capitalizing makes it > easier to start a commit summary with an API symbol name or other > identifiers that should not be capitalized.
I don't have any strong preferences. How about the following amended version: First line (the brief description) must only be one sentence and should start with a capital letter unless it starts with a lowercase symbol or identifier. Don't use a trailing period either. Don't exceed 72 characters. Matthias _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n