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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: Your commit 7409a79 |
Date: | Sun, 07 Dec 2014 17:57:27 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 |
Stephen Leake wrote:
Now I realize the commit message should have been: http:/<archive reference>; no other changes to help the git rename heuristic
When a commit merely renames files, wouldn't it be better for the subject line to explain the underlying reason for the change? Something like this, perhaps: "Rename old ChangeLog files to prepare for gitlog-to-changelog." That would be easier to follow than some URL. Any URL could be placed in later lines in the commit message.
Still longer than 79 chars; I'm going to hit that limit a lot
The limit is currently 72 characters (unless the line has just one word).Some projects also have a separate limit of 50 characters for subject lines; for example, please see <http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html>. But this might be a bit too short for Emacs.
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