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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:307146 Archived-At: Hello, On Mon 19 Jun 2023 at 07:33PM +03, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > If your problems are with the feature branch, then I think you are > making your life harder than it needs to be. Our conventions for > formatting commit log messages don't apply to feature branches. On > feature branches, the developers are free to format the log messages > as they see fit; the only log message that matters is the one for the > merge-commit which lands the feature branch on master (which you have > to create by hand anyway). > > The upshot of all this is that while you are working on a feature > branch: > > . you can use short single-line note-like log messages, which might > be unclear to anyone but yourself > . you should generally commit each time when you finish some > meaningful changeset, so that it could be later reverted without > complications -- this goes well with short log messages > . it is futile to use "C-x 4 a"-style log messages, especially for > changes in files or in functions the branch adds, because in the > final commit log we only need to see "foo: New file" Is this written down somewhere? I had no idea about it. If I'd recently started a feature branch, I'd likely have been carefully formatting my commits, for no good reason. -- Sean Whitton