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

[Jonathan Roelofs]

On 9/24/14 5:03 PM, Tim Northover wrote:
> On 24 September 2014 15:51, Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org> wrote:
>> The idea, AFAIK, is to have a title with 50 chars, separated by an
>> empty line and an infinite number of 80-col lines following.
>
> I tend to follow something like that anyway so I think it's a good
> idea, but if anything I'd prefer a longer title line than the body.
> Particularly with the prefixes we tend to put in there, 50 chars is
> hardly anything.
I tend to look at this like I look at superExtremelyLongFunctionNames:
if it needs a really long description for the summary, maybe it's better
to break it into a few smaller patches. My $0.02, anyway... :)


Cheers,

Jon

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> Tim.
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