Re: [OE-core] Commit messages

2016-10-09 Thread Paul Eggleton
Hi Armin, On Sun, 09 Oct 2016 20:29:39 akuster808 wrote: > On 10/09/2016 05:35 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote: > > I've been going through the commits in preparation for our release notes, > > and unfortunately what I'm seeing is that the number of empty or > > incomplete commit messages has noticeably i

Re: [OE-core] Commit messages

2016-10-09 Thread akuster808
Paul, On 10/09/2016 05:35 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote: Hi folks, I've been going through the commits in preparation for our release notes, and unfortunately what I'm seeing is that the number of empty or incomplete commit messages has noticeably increased over previous releases. Commit messages a

[OE-core] Commit messages

2016-10-09 Thread Paul Eggleton
Hi folks, I've been going through the commits in preparation for our release notes, and unfortunately what I'm seeing is that the number of empty or incomplete commit messages has noticeably increased over previous releases. Commit messages are vitally important to providing a readable history,

[OE-core] Commit messages becoming too short

2013-03-05 Thread Richard Purdie
There appears to be a general trend towards short commit messages. I don't impose a "must have a long log and short log" policy but I'll have to if things don't improve. To be clear, the commit message needs to say not just what changed but *why* the change is necessary, e.g. what error it causes