From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ChangeLog and commit messages Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 10:39:48 +0300 Message-ID: <837cs1p6bf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87a5wxb5sl.fsf.ref@yahoo.com> <87a5wxb5sl.fsf@yahoo.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40809"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 18 09:40:25 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qAn1N-000ASO-54 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2023 09:40:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qAn0o-0001pU-QL; Sun, 18 Jun 2023 03:39:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qAn0n-0001p8-7a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jun 2023 03:39:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qAn0m-0008Jp-Pw; Sun, 18 Jun 2023 03:39:48 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=2E8DYypTvPIuPg1Wa7Ot3v35/TRccNSAfyAcvKdvkUs=; b=dUWFbR/eKuMH 2+HZ/1OzdzUv5sf5NrJAIYpgRI+edw1ZBztrXXvr8/6I6qUnVUqD7v3pJ3QuImJMZ/QLwwh1J/25S BkPNvJP/mHTyOQTrh+Zfam4HNGWqOQkSjXF0XPeVIXwSGiwE9GIiM+eQin+H8sdDw3026tmBiJF+H 9Ic1unywU/nYOZqxmiJ3kdWayUBVpzECAaAMBw/jRQdYo78JFDWPXjnWMOlz4SbrEnAu2PdeW6eJm b2ljxl5eHhRVATAYowU8UyVGlcWZDVNlDN8uqjDAHhOzC4Ki1U3M8a22QYxJfTz3G7eyoknH4BDzd 7vNiOjFth3NQ/nsOy6TgDQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qAn0k-0001Xh-MV; Sun, 18 Jun 2023 03:39:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87a5wxb5sl.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Sun, 18 Jun 2023 15:14:50 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:306916 Archived-At: > From: Po Lu > Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 15:14:50 +0800 > > 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. > > 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? How would that work, exactly? Do you want to switch back to Bazaar or CVS? OTOH, I don't really understand the difficulties of summarizing a commit in a single line. I rarely if ever have problems with that.