From e2bfcc9f9a51e33215d30d4226216c029c182ec3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Noam Postavsky Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 07:56:39 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] * CONTRIBUTE: Don't recommend action stamps (Bug#20609). --- CONTRIBUTE | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE index c324375bb0..79c127fbdc 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTE +++ b/CONTRIBUTE @@ -232,10 +232,9 @@ them right the first time, so here are guidelines for formatting them: switches to a different VCS. So we recommend against that. One way to identify revisions is by quoting their summary line. - Another is with an action stamp - an RFC3339 date followed by ! - followed by the committer's email - for example, - "2014-01-16T05:43:35Z!esr@thyrsus.com". Often, "my previous commit" - will suffice. + Prefixing the summary with the commit date can give useful context + (use 'git show -s "--pretty=format:%cd \"%s\"" --date=short HASH' to + produce that). Often, "my previous commit" will suffice. - There is no need to mention files such as NEWS and MAINTAINERS, or to indicate regeneration of files such as 'lib/gnulib.mk', in the -- 2.11.0