[jbosstools-dev] On the topic of useful PR title/descriptions and git commit messages

Denis Golovin dgolovin at exadel.com
Wed Nov 21 12:00:50 EST 2012


On 11/21/2012 08:29 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>>> 1 line for title, max 50 characters and don't end with a '.'
>>>
>>> JBIDE-1234 - hibernate tools 4 classloading is broken.
>>>
>> ;)
>>
>> Anyway, thanks for the suggestions. I usually don't use '-', but that shouldn't matter, right?
> No, it doesn't matter.

Full link would be shown as a link in on github, but I guess with 
limitation of 50 chars that is not really possible to use.

Denis

>
>> Also, I never used newlines in the long description and now I see that it's not good - git log now displays one long line :( So breaking the lines manually is a good idea.
> Yes, its normal coming from svn, where looking at history is/was painful so rarely noticed.
>
> but in git you do it all the time and the tools assumes this style and gives much better experience when using the newline.
>
> /max
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