>>>>> On Sun, 24 Jan 2016, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > The ChangeLog page is nonsense as-is, and removing it makes the > devmanual better. Afterwards, if someone wants to take the commit > message guidelines from the wiki and merge them with the old ChangeLog > tips, great. There's only two things worth salvaging from the ChangeLog > page. Here's the combined list:
> 1. Everything from the Git workflow wiki page "Commit message format" > section. I would say not only that section, but most of the page. The devmanual is the one central place where our development workflow should be documented, not some random wiki page. > 2. Mention the "Gentoo-Bug:" identifier. Right. (But had we settled for "Gentoo-Bug:"? IIRC, last time this was discussed there was no consensus.) > Using "bug #12345" in the commit message itself causes trouble. > If you word-wrap on the "#12345", it will silently clobber the > message. That's one of the reasons why I have 'commentchar = ";"' in my .gitconfig file. (Not sure if that option would be worth mentioning in our documentation, though.) > [...] Ulrich
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