From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Your commit 7409a79 Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 03:34:30 -0600 Message-ID: <85bnnecwnt.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: <83h9x917il.fsf@gnu.org> <85ppbvdqqu.fsf@stephe-leake.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418031320 22711 80.91.229.3 (8 Dec 2014 09:35:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 09:35:20 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 08 10:35:13 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 1Xxuin-00061T-7R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 10:35:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60877 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xxuim-0001Ic-RV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 04:35:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59461) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxuiG-00018C-Ep for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 04:34:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxuiA-0001Of-Cd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 04:34:40 -0500 Original-Received: from dnvrco-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.73.228]:20304 helo=dnvrco-oedge-vip.email.rr.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxuiA-0001OZ-8d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 04:34:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [70.94.38.149] ([70.94.38.149:53709] helo=TAKVER) by dnvrco-oedge02 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.5.0.35861 r(Momo-dev:tip)) with ESMTP id CB/DD-05421-9A075845; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 09:34:33 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 07 Dec 2014 18:28:55 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.94 (windows-nt) X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.64.130:25 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=NtdfcqtJ c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=AppmJ/7ZOOFWL/q6u6u93g==:117 a=AppmJ/7ZOOFWL/q6u6u93g==:17 a=ayC55rCoAAAA:8 a=fNEgcOh0sVsA:10 a=9i_RQKNPAAAA:8 a=lCDACcrLxFg1ZJZLXy4A:9 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 107.14.73.228 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:179366 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> Ok. I often switch tenses halfway thru, and then get annoyed when I >> realize that. Having a standard will help. > > The use of the present tens is stated in the GNU Coding standard. Hmm. Not in section 6.8 Change Logs or 5.2 Commenting Your Work; I've read those carefully. The word "tense" does not appear in the rest of the manual (searched both the single html and ascii versions). Can you point to a more precise reference? 5.2 does say "write complete sentences and capitalize the first word", so we can reference that if we want it to apply to commit messages. -- -- Stephe