On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 12:38:23PM -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote: > I would like to suggest that the first line of all commit messages > consist of a brief summary (80 or fewer characters) of the commit.
I agree that this would be a good idea. I don't like our current commit message format either. (In many cases, it would be sufficient to drop the first two lines - the author name and the blank line - as there's often a short summary after that anyway, and even if you lose a bit due to it running over multiple lines it's still more useful than what we have now.) > It's important to have sufficient detail in the commit messages, > but I think that a concise summary as the first line, instead of > repeating the committer/author name (which is already part of the > commit metadata and is shown separately by all VCS tools) would be > tremendously helpful. Furthermore, we should consistently use 'bzr commit --author' when committing changes by other people (I've been guilty of forgetting this myself). With that, there's absolutely no need to list the author separately. -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
