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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Your commit 7409a79
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 20:28:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bnnexafo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5485EA7A.1010705@cs.ucla.edu>

> Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 10:14:18 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> On 12/08/2014 09:57 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > My comment above was in the context
> > of a request to use full sentences as summary lines.  Is that a
> > "failure to practice git subject line hygiene"?
> Yes, absolutely.  The typical Git style has no period at the end.

I already agreed to no-period format.  It can still be a full
sentence.

> We might also prefer to shorten the summary lines to 50 characters,
> as that is is also part of the usual Git style.

If someone can write a meaningful summary in 50 characters every time,
chapeau.  IMO, it is more important for the summary to be informative
than it is to be short.



  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-08 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-06  8:56 Your commit 7409a79 Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-06 10:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-12-06 10:29   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-06 10:32   ` Paul Eggert
2014-12-06 15:29   ` Yuri Khan
2014-12-06 23:01   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-06 16:14 ` Tom
2014-12-06 18:54   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-06 22:43   ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-06 22:33 ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-07  3:52   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-07 22:39     ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-08  1:57       ` Paul Eggert
2014-12-08  2:28         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-08 15:58           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-08 23:38             ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-08 15:58         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-08 18:24           ` Paul Eggert
2014-12-08 15:51       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-08 17:32         ` John Yates
2014-12-08 17:57           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-08 18:14             ` Paul Eggert
2014-12-08 18:28               ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-12-08 18:37               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-08 18:54                 ` Paul Eggert
2014-12-08 19:00               ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-08 18:54             ` John Yates
2014-12-08 23:27         ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-09  0:51           ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-12-09  8:08             ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-09  9:36               ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-12-09 16:57           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-10  9:26             ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-10 16:17               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-10 17:04                 ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-10 18:02                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-10 19:20                     ` Paul Eggert
2014-12-07  5:45   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-12-06 22:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-07 22:44   ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-07 23:28     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-08  9:34       ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-08 10:22         ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-12-08 14:58         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-08 23:32           ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-09 11:00           ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-09 11:09             ` David Kastrup
2014-12-10  8:24               ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-10 17:05                 ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-10 19:08                   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-12-08 15:54     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-08 23:33       ` Stephen Leake

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