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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 1655A660F3 X-Migadu-Scanner: mx1.migadu.com X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -6.18 X-Spam-Score: -6.18 X-TUID: hsc6HAfaTL9i On 9/5/23 10:01 AM, Simon Tournier wrote: > Well, somehow, I consider the commit message format similarly as coding > style. We can discuss which one is better than the other when at the > end it only reflects some artificial preferences and for the sake of any > project one needs to be arbitrarily picked. Why not ChangeLog? The distinction I draw is that I can usually run a linter against a coding style. I don't care very much what the standard for commit messages is other than if it has an expectation of structure, I be able to run a tool to tell me if it's wrong. In other words, the overhead isn't "I don't like this standard", it's "I can't find a way to reliably adhere to the standard".