Hi, the commit style did grow on me over the time, but I do not have particularly strong opinion either way. Just wanted to react to few things.
Liam Hupfer <l...@hpfr.net> writes: > [..] > > The commit message’s purpose isn’t to enable people to avoid reading the > diff; that’s an impossible goal. It’s to contextualize the diff. One additional benefit is that you can search the git history using --grep instead of -G. On repository of Guix' size the difference is quite noticeable. > [..] > >> Anyways, I’m for simplifying the format for our use case, but let’s not >> drop it entirely. I think overall our commits look great so its >> definitely working nicely. > > This is partly why I didn’t propose banning the format outright in my > original message. I don’t want to bother developers who like writing the > current style (other than the fact that they’ll need to get used to > seeing commits from others without the rote file enumerations). Which will sadly nuke the usefulness of --grep. Tomas -- There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
