Re: Summarizing the purpose of a change.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:19:50 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > In many projects, there is a convention of summarizing the purpose of a
> > change in one or two sentences at the start of the log entry.  This
> > makes the rest of the log entry (and the change itself) easier to
> > understand.
> 
> > Could we try that in Emacs?  Or is there some reason we don't do it?
> 
> I do this every time.  So far, nobody's complained.

I do this when I commit large sets of changes.  It could be a nuisance
to do that for simple changes in a single file, though.