From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-diffs emails can get long subject if log starts with "*" Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 19:26:13 +0200 Message-ID: <83zjbhrfpm.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87389azvuk.fsf@igel.home> <1573504.ME31ScXqvn@descartes> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416763627 21588 80.91.229.3 (23 Nov 2014 17:27:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 17:27:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=BCdiger?= Sonderfeld Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 23 18:27:00 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 1Xsaw8-0005Bk-22 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 18:27:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49462 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xsaw7-0008At-Lq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 12:26:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46454) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XsavN-0007aw-Sn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 12:26:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XsavI-0006eC-53 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 12:26:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:35591) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XsavH-0006du-T4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 12:26:08 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NFI002005DK6I00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 19:26:06 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NFI001V95RHYAA0@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 19:26:06 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <1573504.ME31ScXqvn@descartes> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 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:178098 Archived-At: > From: R=C3=BCdiger Sonderfeld > Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 17:04:36 +0100 > Cc: Andreas Schwab >=20 > That's why the recommendation for git is to limit the first line to= 50=20 > characters. That's way to few for a meaningful summary of the commit. I normally need at least 70, sometimes more. > This of course conflicts with the common practice in Emacs to simpl= y > use the ChangeLog entry as the commit message. There's no such practice. Committers are requested to come up with a summary line, and use the ChangeLog entry below that, as a separate paragraph. The ChangeLog entry can serve as the summary line only if it's a single line, and there's nothing to be said except what that one line does.