From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 104780 invoked by alias); 4 Nov 2019 12:43:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 104771 invoked by uid 89); 4 Nov 2019 12:43:21 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-7.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=effort, H*UA:https X-HELO: mx1.suse.de Received: from mx2.suse.de (HELO mx1.suse.de) (195.135.220.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 04 Nov 2019 12:43:20 +0000 Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.254]) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 378B7B3DE for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2019 12:43:18 +0000 (UTC) From: Martin Jambor To: GCC Development Cc: Subject: Re: Commit messages and the move to git In-Reply-To: References: User-Agent: Notmuch/0.29.1 (https://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/26.3 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 12:43:00 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-11/txt/msg00021.txt.bz2 On Mon, Nov 04 2019, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: > Some tools, particularly gitk or git log --oneline, can use one-line > summaries from a commit's log message when listing commits. It would be > nice if we could start adopting a style that is compatible with this, so > that in future commits are summarized in a useful way. ... > The normal convention in git is that the one line summary is essentially > the subject line of the email message that describes the patch and is > then followed by a blank line before the body of the commit message. > I wholeheartedly agree. Thanks to everyone already doing this and everyone else, please just start, adding a summary line takes just minimal effort. Martin