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

[Hal Finkel]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Reid Kleckner" <rnk at google.com>
> To: "Renato Golin" <renato.golin at linaro.org>
> Cc: "Hal Finkel" <hfinkel at anl.gov>, "Clang Dev" <cfe-dev at cs.uiuc.edu>, "LLVM Dev" <llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>
> Sent: Friday, March 6, 2015 2:59:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [cfe-dev] [LLVMdev] Commit message policy?
> 
> 
> I think the only guideline we should have is that the first line
> should be written as though it is an email subject, because it gets
> used for that. If you write a long first line, then you get a long
> subject, and it looks silly. If people want to embarrass themselves
> with strangely formatted email, they it's on them. We don't need a
> specific hard or soft number.

Indeed; I agree that this is the most important thing, and that we don't need a specific character count so long as we explain that it becomes the subject of an e-mail. What prompted me to ping this thread was yet-another private e-mail exchange I had with a relatively-new contributor, where I pointed this out, and he or she hadn't realized or thought about it, and asked if we had this advice anywhere on the web site.

This part of the last-posted patch is also useful:

+* `Attribution of Changes`_ should be in a separate line, after the end of
+  the body, as simple as "Patch by John Doe.".

because I find standardization in this area comforting (and, more importantly, it will remind people to do it).

Thanks again,
Hal

> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Renato Golin <
> renato.golin at linaro.org > wrote:
> 
> 
> On 6 March 2015 at 18:33, Hal Finkel < hfinkel at anl.gov > wrote:
> > Hi Renato,
> > 
> > Did anything ever happen with this?
> 
> Nope. People didn't want to commit to limits but still have a
> guideline. I'm of the view that guidelines are meant to be ignored.
> 
> Do you want to continue pushing this?
> 
> cheers,
> --renato
> 
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Hal Finkel
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