Re: commit summary, --pretty=short and other tools

On Sep 17, 2007, at 1:21 PM, Mike Hommey wrote:

Hi,

I kind of shot myself in the foot with how to type proper commit
messages.

The git-commit manual page reads:
  Though not required, it´s a good idea to begin the commit message  
with a
  single short (less than 50 character) line summarizing the change,
  followed by a blank line and then a more thorough description.

... and I happen to not have done the "followed by a blank line" part.

[...]

What do you think ?

I started using Git as a "better SVN client" and didn't follow this  
"good idea".  The thing, as I already pointed out on IRC, these a are  
more rules than just guidelines.  Some tools (such as rebase) enforce  
them.  That is, they rewrite commit messages.  I found this extremely  
annoying (Junio provided a patch but I don't know whether it's been  
applied, I personally use it in my Git).

See this thread: http://marc.info/?t=118561729500001&r=1&w=2

My opinion is that it would be better to keep the first line and  
never ever rewrite the commit messages.

Cheers,

-- 
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory