From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Referring to revisions in the git future. Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:59:13 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wq7jxc7d.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414591205 32545 80.91.229.3 (29 Oct 2014 14:00:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:00:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , David Kastrup , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: jemarch@gnu.org (Jose E. Marchesi) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 29 14:59:54 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XjTn0-0005PC-5d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:59:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46317 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjTmx-0000vI-Ja for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:59:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37806) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjTmc-0000u1-UY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:59:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjTmV-0003y1-Fg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:59:30 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:61277) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjTmM-0003vu-RI; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:59:14 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Au0MAOatTlRFpY87/2dsb2JhbABcgw6DYoZ+y1MEAgKBHBcBAXyEAwEBAwFWIxALNBIUGA2IbwnLcgEBAQcCAR+RCAeESwWfEoNJjTSCEYFvhBQhgnoBAQE X-IPAS-Result: Au0MAOatTlRFpY87/2dsb2JhbABcgw6DYoZ+y1MEAgKBHBcBAXyEAwEBAwFWIxALNBIUGA2IbwnLcgEBAQcCAR+RCAeESwWfEoNJjTSCEYFvhBQhgnoBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.04,797,1406606400"; d="scan'208";a="95505790" Original-Received: from 69-165-143-59.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.143.59]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 29 Oct 2014 09:59:14 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id F36827ABE; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:59:13 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87wq7jxc7d.fsf@gnu.org> (Jose E. Marchesi's message of "Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:00:38 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:175990 Archived-At: >> About summary lines, a reminder: Please don't write the traditional >> GNUish run-on change comment with a semi-infinite number of bulleted >> items in it any more. > That's your opinion, but the convention we still use here (and don't > just recommend but *request* people to follow) is the GNU ChangeLog > format. > You can have both. In other GNU projects using git (gdb, binutils) we > include a summary line for the benefit of `git log --oneline', followed > by an extended description in a separated paragraph(s) and finally the > ChangeLog entries. We do like to have a summary line as well, indeed (that's part of the reason why 24.4 has now "Summary:" in the default content of the *VC-Log* buffer where you write your commit message). But Eric was recommending not to include the full ChangeLog thingy. Stefan