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Date:      Wed, 14 Apr 2021 11:58:22 +0200
From:      Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org>
To:        Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Adriaan de Groot <adridg@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org, Thomas Zander <riggs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Please use portname in first line of git commit message (git: 2a0f957e6215 - main - Update to upstream release 56.1.0.)
Message-ID:  <YHa8vj/dfuNJB9rU@emphyrio.blackend.org>
In-Reply-To: <fc34a7f6-03f8-649c-4f26-2622da017c9e@FreeBSD.org>
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Le 14.04.2021 11:48, Mateusz Piotrowski a écrit :
> > The git email doesn't know what paths have been committed, and "just" uses the
> > first line of the commit message. Many people now use
> >
> > 	<category>/<port>: <change summary>
> >
> > as the first line of the commit message, also because "git log" doesn't show
> > files by default, and convenient git-history viewers like gitk and qgit show
> > the first line of the commit message in overviews. Using this format for the
> > first line of a commit message (followed by one blank line) helps all
> > consumers of the git tree -- you can spot a couple by me that do *not* follow
> > this format as well, that was before I realised that "this can be better". (It
> > does take a while to develop the muscle memory to do it this way).
> >
> > [ade]
> 
> Perhaps we could add a note about it to the commit message template for ports?
>

Yes, please.

-- 
Marc



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