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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: 7145A3F24E X-Migadu-Scanner: mx1.migadu.com X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -6.47 X-Spam-Score: -6.47 X-TUID: i/ePN8Xjcoac Am Dienstag, dem 05.09.2023 um 11:01 -0600 schrieb Katherine Cox-Buday: > On 9/5/23 10:01 AM, Simon Tournier wrote: >=20 > > Well, somehow, I consider the commit message format similarly as > > coding > > style.=C2=A0 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.=C2=A0 Why not ChangeLog? >=20 > The distinction I draw is that I can usually run a linter against a=20 > coding style. >=20 > 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=20 > tell me if it's wrong. >=20 > 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". Uhm, we have snippets?