Hi Michal,

On Sat, Aug 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM Michał Łyszczek <michal.lyszc...@bofc.pl>
wrote:

> On 2025-08-09 16:47:01, Alan C. Assis wrote:
> > * It passes a wrong message, as something very negative (not all
> > breaking are bad, or shouldn't be)
> > * Someone reading our git history could get a wrong impression of the
> > project
> > * It will cluttering the title, by convention the title should have only
> 50
> > chars
> > * It doesn't follow the conventional commits specification:
> > https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/
> >
> > So, please verify the suggested modification here:
> > https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/16823
> >
> > The suggestion as defined by conventional commits is to include the
> > "BREAKING CHANGE: " in the commit log message (foot).
> That exclamation mark is actually pretty sweet. Does not clutter, easy to
> grep.
> And details can be later described in footer in a single sentence like
> "funcion
> X has been renamed to Y". Just a note. Wouldn't standard footer be in form
>

Yes, the exclamation mark is a good alternative as well. It will add only 1
char in the title and will be very discrete.


> "Breaking-change:"? There are already things like "Signed-off-by:".
>

Good question, no idea why they didn't define it as "Breaking-change:",
maybe it could be suggested to be included in a new specification.

BR,

Alan

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