On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 03:31:52PM -0400, David Malcolm wrote: > If we're going to migrate to git (I hope so), can we also please > *slightly* revise the policy on commit messages, to add meaningful > titles to commits? > > Currently: > https://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/svnwrite.html#checkin says: > > "The log message for that checkin should be the complete ChangeLog entry > for the change." > > and the subsection "Commit the changes to the central repository" below > https://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/svnwrite.html#example > has an example showing this. > > > In the git world, the first line of the commit message has special > meaning, being treated as the "title" of the commit.
It would be nice if we could use a real commit message, not just a short title line; for example, people who prepare their patches in git already have that, and use it with format-patch as you say. And many bonus points if we don't have to repeat the changelog in the commit message (it's in the commit already, the bugzilla hook could just pull it from out there). Or we could have another discussion about if we want to have changelogs at all... Segher
