Re: Dates in Commits and other issues of style (Re: [RFC 2/5] Pretty Print: show tz when using DATE_LOCAL)

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Enforcing consistency is one of the important tasks the maintainers do in
their projects.  Besides ensuring that the intent of the change each patch
brings to the codebase is good, that the log entry describes the change in
a useful way for future readers, and that the patch correctly implements
the described change, we also need to make sure that the resulting code
matches the style of the surrounding code, and the style, structure and
tone the log messages are delivered in a consistent voice.  Otherwise it
would quickly get very tiring when you have to dig into the history of the
codebase.  The code and the history are read a lot more often than are
written. [...]

This information should be put e.g. in SubmittingPatches, or
CodingGuidelines, or MaintNotes, isn't it?

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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