;) Text formatting and commit message style seem to both be hot button issues with developers. No surprise that there are a lot of opinions here. I think we should try to remember our audience and provide flexibility where it's really important, ideally not at the expense of clarity.
-dave On Mar 16, 2010, at 6:27 PM, Kevin LaCoste wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Pieter de Bie <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just look at stuff like > http://github.com/git/git/commit/1830d9cb62772c0626297e4bb6e537664283ebfa > > There's a reason git log, gitk, gitx, github, git-gui and other tools > use fixed-width fonts. > > Sure, I wasn't denying that people do it. I was just questioning the > frequency of it. And the example commit, to some degree, enforces my other > point. This type of commit message is in the minority and honestly, not all > that helpful. > > I know that people feel pretty strongly about this type of thing though so I > think some of the points made in the follow up emails should be considered. > > Kevin >
