Re: commit messages

On 03/31/2009 07:25 PM, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> Alex and Christos (anyone else too),
>
> Can you please remember that the first line of the commit message needs to
> be around 80 characters or less and followed by a completely empty line.
>
> It screws up the changesets display page which truncate your text and make
> it very cryptic unless I re-write it (which I'm not supposed to do).
>
> The full description can follow (or not) on later lines, but this first
> line is meant to be only a short concise blurb for the changesets,
> changelog, and announcements.

I did not realize or forgot that the changeset display page (or the code
that generates it?) has such a limitation. I will try to shorten first
lines, although I am not sure that I can meaningfully summarize all
changes using 80 characters.

Thank you,

Alex.
Received on Wed Apr 01 2009 - 04:23:35 MDT