Re: [PATCH][www] svnwrite.html: recommend giving checkin messages a title (was Re: Moving to git)

2015-08-22 Thread Florian Weimer
* David Malcolm: > +The log message for a checkin should be a single line giving a > +descriptive title for the checkin, followed by a blank line, followed by > +the complete ChangeLog entry for the change. This is the git convention; > +giving titles to checkins makes life easier for developers

Re: [PATCH][www] svnwrite.html: recommend giving checkin messages a title (was Re: Moving to git)

2015-08-22 Thread Segher Boessenkool
On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 10:59:31AM -0400, David Malcolm wrote: > > > +The log message for a checkin should be a single line giving a > > > +descriptive title for the checkin, followed by a blank line, followed by > > > +the complete ChangeLog entry for the change. This is the git convention; > > >

Re: [PATCH][www] svnwrite.html: recommend giving checkin messages a title (was Re: Moving to git)

2015-08-22 Thread David Malcolm
On Sat, 2015-08-22 at 05:55 -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 07:54:11PM -0400, David Malcolm wrote: > > > >> 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

Re: [PATCH][www] svnwrite.html: recommend giving checkin messages a title (was Re: Moving to git)

2015-08-22 Thread Segher Boessenkool
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 07:54:11PM -0400, David Malcolm wrote: > > >> 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;