On 24 June 2013 07:51, Luke Daley <luke.da...@gradleware.com> wrote: > > On 24/06/2013, at 2:44 PM, Daz DeBoer <darrell.deb...@gradleware.com> > wrote: > > > On 24 June 2013 05:32, Luke Daley <luke.da...@gradleware.com> wrote: > > > https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#creating-commits-and-writing-commit-messages > > > > Git commit messages are expected (not required) to have a certain > format, that tooling uses: > https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap/wiki/Git-Commit-Message-Format > > > > Our recommendation is in tension with this. Can I update our > recommendation to match the standard? > > > > What sort of tooling uses this? This isn't a 'standard' (de-facto or > otherwise) that I was aware of. I don't mind changing but I'm curious about > how widespread this is. > > Three that I know of that I use; GitHub, git log and IDEA. >
I'm wary of this turning into a 'colour of the bikeshed' argument, but my understanding is that these tools only assume a single title line followed by any number of detail lines. That said, I'm happy for the team to adopt and promote a common standard for commit messages, and I think adopting a commonly promoted format is a good idea. > > I guess we'd need to agree to adopt this standard internally before we > ask that our contributors do the same. > > You could say the same about what's currently there in the contributing > doc. > > -- > Luke Daley > Principal Engineer, Gradleware > http://gradleware.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > > -- Darrell (Daz) DeBoer Principal Engineer, Gradleware http://www.gradleware.com
