From 8d3942dde2b3f4b84c27c36e6357e86b3f117c49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pieter Praet Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:47:52 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] patchformatting.mdwn: added cworth's statement re commit msg body I'd love to have used ikiwiki's shortcut directive [1] 'gmanemsg' (which is enabled @ notmuchmail.org [2]) eg. [[has stated|!gmanemsg 87ocmwok2w.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org]] but this isn't possible yet [3], so I had to insert the actual link... [1] http://notmuchmail.org/shortcuts/ [1] http://ikiwiki.info/shortcuts/ [2] http://ikiwiki.info/todo/shortcut_with_different_link_text/ --- patchformatting.mdwn | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/patchformatting.mdwn b/patchformatting.mdwn index 3a122fc..8f32031 100644 --- a/patchformatting.mdwn +++ b/patchformatting.mdwn @@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ Enter your commit message in following format: The 65-character (limit) seems to be common among many projects so that is good guideline to follow here too. +Regarding the commit message body contents, Carl [has stated](http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.notmuch.general/504): + +> The single line summary is good about saying *what* the commit does, +> but I always want to see at least one sentence about the *why* as well. + ### Activating default pre-commit hook Git provides a default pre-commit hook which, when activated, checks -- 2.43.0