[cfe-dev] [LLVMdev] Commit message policy?

Hal Finkel hfinkel at anl.gov
Fri Mar 6 10:33:27 PST 2015


Hi Renato,

Did anything ever happen with this?

 -Hal

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Renato Golin" <renato.golin at linaro.org>
> To: "John Criswell" <jtcriswel at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Clang Dev" <cfe-dev at cs.uiuc.edu>, "LLVM Dev" <llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 12:09:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [cfe-dev] [LLVMdev] Commit message policy?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi John, Chandler, I completely agree.
> 
> Cheers,
> Renato
> On 25 Sep 2014 17:39, "John Criswell" < jtcriswel at gmail.com > wrote:
> 
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> Two quick comments:
> 
> 1) Don't suggest that titles be 70 characters but that 80 is okay.
> Just say they should be at 70 characters and leave it at that.
> 
> 2) +1 for Chandler's comment that what is really needed are ideas on
> how to write meaningful descriptions of what was changed. Poorly
> written descriptions of what was changed is the number one reason I
> curse at commit logs.
> 
> -- John T.
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> cfe-dev mailing list
> cfe-dev at cs.uiuc.edu
> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-dev
> 

-- 
Hal Finkel
Assistant Computational Scientist
Leadership Computing Facility
Argonne National Laboratory



More information about the cfe-dev mailing list