From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Your commit 7409a79 Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 17:57:27 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <54850587.4080006@cs.ucla.edu> References: <83h9x917il.fsf@gnu.org> <85k324h0hg.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83k324yv44.fsf@gnu.org> <85tx17dqzy.fsf@stephe-leake.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418003874 18324 80.91.229.3 (8 Dec 2014 01:57:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 01:57:54 +0000 (UTC) To: Stephen Leake , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 08 02:57:49 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xxna8-0005vo-Je for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 02:57:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59780 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xxna8-0004IQ-80 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 20:57:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49959) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxnZz-0004I9-9B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 20:57:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxnZt-0006re-Qv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 20:57:39 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:47555) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxnZt-0006rJ-Ks for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 20:57:33 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B019A60034; Sun, 7 Dec 2014 17:57:32 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id nEBVA4O-sb9U; Sun, 7 Dec 2014 17:57:27 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-71-177-17-123.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.177.17.123]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B42B4A60007; Sun, 7 Dec 2014 17:57:27 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 In-Reply-To: <85tx17dqzy.fsf@stephe-leake.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179347 Archived-At: Stephen Leake wrote: > Now I realize the commit message should have been: > > http:/; no other changes to help the git rename > heuristic When a commit merely renames files, wouldn't it be better for the subject line to explain the underlying reason for the change? Something like this, perhaps: "Rename old ChangeLog files to prepare for gitlog-to-changelog." That would be easier to follow than some URL. Any URL could be placed in later lines in the commit message. > Still longer than 79 chars; I'm going to hit that limit a lot The limit is currently 72 characters (unless the line has just one word). Some projects also have a separate limit of 50 characters for subject lines; for example, please see . But this might be a bit too short for Emacs.