[racket-dev] Commit messages

2012-11-07 Thread Eli Barzilay
There have been some bad commit messages recently, so here's some general reminder/guidelines/whatever. (Maybe someone would care to rewrite this into something that can be put with the style guide?) It's roughly adapted from the conventions from the git project. 0.1. This is all coming in additi

Re: [racket-dev] Commit messages in git

2011-08-28 Thread Matthias Felleisen
This was already a part of the Style sheet draft, but I have taken Eli's message and refined the section on commits. On Aug 27, 2011, at 10:04 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > I see that it's becoming semi common to write commit messages that > look like: > > | some quick description > | more

[racket-dev] Commit messages in git

2011-08-27 Thread Eli Barzilay
I see that it's becoming semi common to write commit messages that look like: | some quick description | more blah blah blah, with more | details about the actual change Note that to do things properly, you should instead have an empty line between the "subject" part and the rest of the