Re: [DISCUSS] changing the format of commit message subject lines

2013-01-30 Thread David Nalley
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 3:35 PM, David Nalley wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'd like to propose that we change the commit message subject line from: > > git commit: $short_commit_msg > > to: > > git commit: $branch - $short_commit_msg > > Any other opinions? > > --David Folks, I just made this change, so

Re: [DISCUSS] changing the format of commit message subject lines

2012-12-13 Thread David Nalley
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Chip Childers wrote: > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Rohit Yadav wrote: >> >> On 06-Dec-2012, at 9:17 AM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Rohit Yadav wrote: For writing commit messages, I think branch name may not be useful b

Re: [DISCUSS] changing the format of commit message subject lines

2012-12-13 Thread Chip Childers
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Rohit Yadav wrote: > > On 06-Dec-2012, at 9:17 AM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Rohit Yadav wrote: >>> For writing commit messages, I think branch name may not be useful but >>> what your commit is doing is more important maybe? >> >

RE: [DISCUSS] changing the format of commit message subject lines

2012-12-06 Thread Animesh Chaturvedi
] changing the format of commit message subject lines On 06-Dec-2012, at 9:17 AM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Rohit Yadav wrote: >> For writing commit messages, I think branch name may not be useful >> but what your commit is doing is more important m

Re: [DISCUSS] changing the format of commit message subject lines

2012-12-06 Thread Rohit Yadav
On 06-Dec-2012, at 9:17 AM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Rohit Yadav wrote: >> For writing commit messages, I think branch name may not be useful but >> what your commit is doing is more important maybe? > > As I understand it, this is a proposal for the subject lin

Re: [DISCUSS] changing the format of commit message subject lines

2012-12-06 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Rohit Yadav wrote: > For writing commit messages, I think branch name may not be useful but > what your commit is doing is more important maybe? As I understand it, this is a proposal for the subject line of the emails - not how the commit messages are written.

Re: [DISCUSS] changing the format of commit message subject lines

2012-12-06 Thread Rohit Yadav
For writing commit messages, I think branch name may not be useful but what your commit is doing is more important maybe? I use this syntax which is pretty much used by a lot of other open source projects like VLC or Linux: : For example in below example, I can use api (referring to the p

Re: [DISCUSS] changing the format of commit message subject lines

2012-12-05 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 03:35:48PM -0500, David Nalley wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'd like to propose that we change the commit message subject line from: > > git commit: $short_commit_msg > > to: > > git commit: $branch - $short_commit_msg > > Any other opinions? Works for me. Would be much easi

Re: [DISCUSS] changing the format of commit message subject lines

2012-12-04 Thread prasanna
On 5 December 2012 02:05, David Nalley wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'd like to propose that we change the commit message subject line from: > > git commit: $short_commit_msg > > to: > > git commit: $branch - $short_commit_msg > > Any other opinions? Not against the idea but how would this be used? I c

Re: [DISCUSS] changing the format of commit message subject lines

2012-12-04 Thread Marcus Sorensen
Should I add this to the summary line on the prepare-commit-msg commit hook? Or should it be a separate line such as: Summary: Detail: Branch: Reviewed-by: Signed-off-by: On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Animesh Chaturvedi < animesh.chaturv...@citrix.com> wrote: > s prefixing with branch makes

RE: [DISCUSS] changing the format of commit message subject lines

2012-12-04 Thread Animesh Chaturvedi
Yes prefixing with branch makes it easier to process the message -Original Message- From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 12:36 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: [DISCUSS] changing the format of commit message subject lines Hi folks,