From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: git commit notation
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 16:49:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sh48b3ep.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5807ee53-ede7-8dbc-2cf1-cf4a63eb1bb6@cs.ucla.edu
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> Is there some special git commit notation for commits that only change
>> comments or docstrings? I ask because I've seen some commit notices that
>> start with the ";" comment character, and I can't tell if those are
>> merge commits, or "no code change" commits.
>
> Starting with "; " means that it's an unimportant commit whose commit
> message won't be copied into ChangeLog.whatever.
Aha!
>> I'm wondering if there are some such commits that don't trigger
>> testing/new builds, or something like that.
>
> Not as far as I know, no.
Got it, thank you for the explanation.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-24 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-24 23:33 git commit notation Eric Abrahamsen
2018-07-24 23:41 ` Paul Eggert
2018-07-24 23:49 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2018-07-25 18:38 ` John Wiegley
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