From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mistakes in commit log messages
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2023 08:43:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wn2cbcvw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <265ac2c8-98bf-97db-2567-fce5db06577a@gmail.com> (message from Jim Porter on Sat, 15 Apr 2023 14:23:02 -0700)
> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2023 14:23:02 -0700
> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
> Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Oh, and just to give an idea of how common incorrect commit messages
> are, my hook says that out of the last 5000 commits, 866 have a problem,
> excluding the Eglot commits.
>
> If I also ignore lines starting with "*" that have no "/" in them (these
> are almost always due to an unnecessary leading "*" on the first line of
> the commit), we get down to 196 bad commit messages, or 3.9% of commits.
And that's _a_lot_, no matter how you count them. Which should give
people here some idea why I raised this issue in the first place: I
needed to fix all those cases by hand while working on the pretest
tarball.
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2023-04-11 6:02 ` Mistakes in commit log messages Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-11 14:01 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-04-11 14:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-11 17:20 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-04-11 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-11 18:31 ` Jim Porter
2023-04-11 18:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-11 19:27 ` Jim Porter
2023-04-11 19:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-12 0:20 ` Jim Porter
2023-04-13 6:18 ` Jim Porter
2023-04-13 6:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-13 7:47 ` Robert Pluim
2023-04-15 3:41 ` Jim Porter
2023-04-15 5:45 ` Jim Porter
2023-04-15 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-15 10:44 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-04-15 11:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-21 22:16 ` Filipp Gunbin
2023-04-15 20:54 ` Jim Porter
2023-04-15 21:23 ` Jim Porter
2023-04-16 5:43 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-04-16 20:06 ` Jim Porter
2023-04-16 20:19 ` Michael Albinus
2023-04-17 2:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-17 7:28 ` Michael Albinus
2023-04-21 4:59 ` Jim Porter
2023-04-15 7:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-12 9:41 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-04-12 10:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-12 9:32 ` Alan Mackenzie
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