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From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ChangeLog and commit messages
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 08:44:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a5wx1agc.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a5wxb5sl.fsf@yahoo.com> (Po Lu's message of "Sun, 18 Jun 2023 15:14:50 +0800")

Hello,

On Sun 18 Jun 2023 at 03:14PM +08, Po Lu wrote:

> I find myself often frustrated that Git requires a commit title.  In
> such a title, committers are expected to summarize in detail changes to
> dozens of different functions in less than 74 characters of text.

Yes, it doesn't fit well with Emacs changelog practices ...

> Normally, the place for such descriptions would be in ChangeLog and
> not the commit message title.  Would it be possible to allow writing
> commit messages consisting solely of ChangeLog, forgoing the commit
> title entirely?

... but this renders C-x v L so much less useful, and anyone who uses
git for other projects will be used to using that view of things a lot.

-- 
Sean Whitton



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-06-18  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87a5wxb5sl.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
2023-06-18  7:14 ` ChangeLog and commit messages Po Lu
2023-06-18  7:39   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-18  7:41     ` Po Lu
2023-06-18  8:02       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-18 14:50       ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-19  0:48         ` Po Lu
2023-06-19  6:25           ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-19  6:51             ` Po Lu
2023-06-19  9:07               ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-19 10:10                 ` Po Lu
2023-06-19 11:57                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-06-19 16:59                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-19 17:24                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-06-19 22:18                   ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-06-19 16:33               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-20  0:55                 ` Po Lu
2023-06-23  6:50                 ` Sean Whitton
2023-06-23  7:16                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-27  4:23                     ` Sean Whitton
2023-06-18  7:44   ` Sean Whitton [this message]
2023-06-18 22:38   ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-06-19  8:52   ` Jose E. Marchesi
2023-06-18 14:03 Bruno Haible

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