> With the move to git fairly imminent now it would be nice if we > could agree on a more git-friendly style of commit messages; and, > ideally, start using them now so that the converted repository can > benefit from this. > > Some tools, particularly gitk or git log --oneline, can use one-line > summaries from a commit's log message when listing commits. It > would be nice if we could start adopting a style that is compatible > with this, so that in future commits are summarized in a useful way. > Unfortunately, some of our existing commits show no useful > information with tools like this.
Strongly seconded. FWIW we've done that for a while in the gcc/ada directory already since we're using GIT internally on GCC and GNAT sources. Arno
