I’d suggest adopting the common convention [Fix #XYZ] Short and informative summary Makes it easier to visually parse the line and tools like magit-commit-mode font-lock this nicely. — Cheers,  Bozhidar On December 8, 2014 at 7:18:01 PM, Eli Zaretskii (eliz@gnu.org) wrote: Can we agree to say something in the commit log's summary line about the bug essence, in addition to the bug number? Otherwise, the summary is not really informative, and you need to look at the bug report in the tracker.