From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: 68691@debbugs.gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com,
iarchivedmywholelife@gmail.com
Subject: bug#68691: 30.0.50; [WISHLIST] Make it easier to conform to desired commit message format
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2024 09:42:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86il3d6gzo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877cjtj4v9.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Sun, 28 Jan 2024 15:26:18 +0800)
> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>, iarchivedmywholelife@gmail.com,
> 68691@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2024 15:26:18 +0800
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > The script which generates ChangeLog files from Git logs is not
> > maintained by us, so this suggestion should go to the Gnulib folks, I
> > think. If they succeed in generating the files and variables touched
> > by a given change mechanically, we can modify our conventions to ask
> > contributors to provide only the part that explains the change, its
> > rationale and important aspects, something that a program cannot
> > produce.
>
> How is this different from expecting them to type C-c C-w in a vc-log
> buffer, and inserting this information?
It's one thing less to do.
> BTW, I wasn't proposing a commit hook that verifies the _contents_ of
> each commit message, only one that verifies the format of the messages.
It cannot. Format could be okay, but will not describe all of the
changes, or describe them in a nonsensical way.
OTOH, is the format below OK or not?
Merge from origin/emacs-29
53481cc9546 Fix description of when "\xNNN" is considered a unibyte character
1ef8b90ae06 Simplify imenu setup for {cmake,dockerfile}-ts-modes
7338af9c986 ; * etc/PROBLEMS: Document that GnuPG 2.4.4 solves the EasyPG
5483a1df99c Improve documentation of profiler commands
fb4cf0ab46d ; Fix xref under Output Overrides in Elisp manual.
aa6c24da61f Fix broken links to Freedesktop notifications spec
14d68221d26 Fix nasty cut'n'waste error in Tramp
51ca049608c Fix image-dired-tags-db-file void variable error
c450eec07ff typescript-ts-mode: Skip test if tsx grammar missing
9841ced147f ; Fix typos
557ed9c0463 * admin/README: Document the run-codespell script.
5701f96335c * admin/README: Fix entry on coccinelle subdirectory.
1805f4bfd62 Add script admin/run-codespell and supporting files
Or this one:
Revert "Fix typo in lispref 'Creating Strings' section"
This reverts commit b825962ea840348bbde0c834ca398458a06fbb8b
which was mistakenly installed in master instead of emacs-29.
Or this one:
; Update copyright years in more files
How do you distinguish between the above perfectly valid examples, and
some arbitrary text in a log message (which should be flagged as
nonconforming)?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-28 7:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-24 17:20 bug#68691: 30.0.50; [WISHLIST] Make it easier to conform to desired commit message format No Wayman
2024-01-25 23:09 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-26 1:27 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-26 18:44 ` Jim Porter
2024-01-28 0:44 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-28 6:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-28 7:21 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-28 7:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-28 8:43 ` Juri Linkov
2024-01-26 7:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-28 1:07 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-28 6:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-28 7:26 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-28 7:42 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-01-28 9:04 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-28 9:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
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