Re: Suggestion: concise summary as 1st line of commit message

2010-03-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 12:38:23PM -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote: > I would like to suggest that the first line of all commit messages > consist of a brief summary (80 or fewer characters) of the commit. I agree that this would be a good idea. I don't like our current commit message format either.

Suggestion: concise summary as 1st line of commit message

2010-03-02 Thread Colin D Bennett
I would like to suggest that the first line of all commit messages consist of a brief summary (80 or fewer characters) of the commit. This would make it a thousand times easier to see what changes are actually taking place from the VCS log. Currently you see things like: 2220: Colin Watson 2010-