On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 17:03 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > 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.
Sounds good to me. And it would be really nice to enforce this using a git hook (repeating myself, I know). David _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list