M. J. Everitt wrote: > I'm thinking something along the lines of the following: > - Line one is limited to <cat>/<pkg> and some Key Word that defines the > type of change made, similar to bugzilla perhaps eg. "REVBUMP, VERBUMP, > EAPIBUMP, BUGFIX, PATCH, FEATUREREQ, OTHER". This would get around the > issue of long package-names and/or overlays and other lengthy prefixes.
This would remove one of two information atoms in commit messages, reducing human expression in commit messages to mere 50%, or to 0% for --oneline output. I think that's unacceptably poor usability. > This should satisfy line length limitations, My counter-proposal is to bup the repoman line length limitation. //Peter
