Re: Commit netiquette.

[Chong Yidong]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:

>      ----------------
>      Author: 
>      Summary: 
>
>      blablabla
>      ----------------
>
>    where <blablabla> is the text taken from the ChangeLog.  Then for
>    backends which support the notion of summary-line, C-c C-c could
>    just signal an error if the Summary line is still blank.
>
> That seems overly forceful, emacs is not just by emacs developers, it
> is used by an immense number of people.

I don't think it should issue an error, but it should prompt the user.
This is similar to how message-mode prompts if you mess up the mail
headers, like having a bogus email address in the To: header.