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From: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Automatically checking commit messages
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:20:44 +0200
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To: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
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Hello

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 5:47 PM, Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> wrote:
> I have been working on a guile script to automatically check commit
> messages -- something like `guix lint' but for commit messages instead
> of package definitions. This could help us enforce our commit message
> guidelines and avoid screw-ups like the one I did in commit
> 1ee879e96705e6381c056358b7f426f2cf99c1df. I believe more automation is
> essential and would help us scale better if/when we have more people
> with commit access.

This is a good idea, and it would be even better if that same thing
could be used to generate a commit message with all the automatable
pieces pre-filled, with only the human parts left to the user.

-- 
Vincent Legoll