[Freeipa-devel] git commit message

Petr Spacek pspacek at redhat.com
Thu Jun 9 06:55:09 UTC 2016


On 8.6.2016 18:07, Lukas Slebodnik wrote:
> On (08/06/16 14:09), Petr Vobornik wrote:
>> On 06/08/2016 10:07 AM, Petr Spacek wrote:
>>> On 7.6.2016 15:11, Stanislav Laznicka wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your patch. As the thin-client patches were pushed in the
>>>> meantime, the patch won't apply. Could you please send a rebased version?
>>>>
>>>> Also, I have a few comments to the patch:
>>>>
>>>> 1) I think that the commit message should be rather a brief conclusion to the
>>>> changes made in the commit. This could help for faster orientation in the
>>>> changes that were made to a certain part of code should you be searching for a
>>>> bug introduced by a commit. Should some more info be required, it can be added
>>>> to the ticket. Could you therefore shorten the commit message?
>>>
>>> (My personal opinion, no golden standard.)
>>>
>>> Honestly I disagree with Standa. Yes, the commit message seems to be a bit
>>> long but *tickets* are not the best place to put *technical* information into.
>>>
>>> Tickets are planning tool but keep in mind that Trac may/will vanish one day
>>> and all we will have will be (Git?) repo.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> The commit message is very good and honestly I'd like to see more of
>> such commit messages.
>>
> Regarding to commit message.
> 
> I like recommendation about git commit message from Openstack wiki
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/GitCommitMessages#Information_in_commit_messages
> We can at least inspire.
> 
> IMHO longer commit message is always better.

I like it!

Thank you for the link.

-- 
Petr^2 Spacek




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