On 21/03/18 13:00, Coty Sutherland wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 4:07 PM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
>> On 21/02/18 16:48, Mark Thomas wrote:
>>> On 21/02/18 16:10, Rainer Jung wrote:
>>>> Am 21.02.2018 um 16:53 schrieb Mark Thomas:
>>>>> The next issue on the list is the format of commit messages.
>>>>>
>>>>> The commit messages we are seeing for the tomcat-training repository
>>>>> have the same format as the commit message for the main tomcat repo will
>>>>> have.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone have any concerns regarding the format?
>>>>
>>>> Would we be able to determine the branch from the subject line, e.g.
>>>> would it be part of what is written between the square brackets? I
>>>> personally find it very convenient to be able to easily filter commit
>>>> mails by branch.
>>>
>>> Where there are new files described in subsequent commits, those commits
>>> don't have a branch in the subject. You can see how this works in
>>> practice on comm...@infra.apache.org
>>
>> Coming back to this.
>>
>> Having seen some of the messages for the tomcat-training repo what are
>> people's thoughts?
> 
> I have a couple small things.
> 
> 1) The third block's formatting looks weird on my end. Example:
> 
> "The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/master by this push:
>      new b13e925  First draft of logging module
> b13e925 is described below"
> 
> I'm not sure the first few lines are necessary (the automated message
> bit and repository link), so they could be removed/cleaned up.

This is a common / standard format used across all ASF git repos. I
suspect there are usage styles (pushes of a large number of commits)
where this makes more sense.

> 2) Can we add a link to the commit somehow so that it closer resembles
> the svn commit emails?

I think we can ask infra for this. Is this a blocker for us to migrate?

Mark

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