Hey Steve,

I like to say:

* patch for CTAKES-xxx <short issue desc> contributed by <Contributor First, 
Last>.  -- this allows someone who's not a committer yet to get credit for the 
patch.
* fix for CTAKES-xxx <short issue desc>. - indicates you contributed the fix 
yourself, or committed an existing committers patch.

Something like the above usually helps to distinguish between new contributors 
and existing committers and ties to the JIRA issue ID
which is good practice.

Cheers,
Chris

On Oct 23, 2012, at 11:13 AM, Steven Bethard wrote:

> Is there a recommended commit message format? Especially when closing an 
> issue?
> 
> In Google Code, I would write "Fixes Issue XXX. <Some description of the 
> issue>" and then Google Code would automatically close the issue. Is there 
> anything like that for the Apache JIRA?
> 
> I found some general Apache stuff 
> (http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/conventions.html#log-messages)
>  but it's more about how to write a useful message and not so much about a 
> specific format.
> 
> Steve

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