Vegard Øye <[email protected]> writes: > On 2010-08-29 20:27, Štěpán Němec wrote: > >> As to the history modifications Vegard made: he also decided that commit >> summaries without periods are better than the former practice, so he >> modified (almost) all the commit messages. (Vegard, could you please >> also adjust the recommendations in CONTRIBUTE to that effect?) > > Done in commit dcf0f9b. Nobody followed this rule anyway, so it made > more sense to get rid of it. :)
*cough* I've stated my (quite different) opinion on the matter already to you in private, but let me repeat for the others, too: Apart from a _very_ few exceptions, _everybody_ ended the commit summaries with a period. Period. (I still have the old Git tree handy in case you don't.) Some other projects, including both GNU Emacs and XEmacs, also end commit summaries with a period. (The question whether "most" do or don't should be left to statisticians.) In my opinion, the switch was unwarranted, but I don't care too much -- it's just impractical both because of the commmit rewriting involved, and in case you wanted to merge or contribute to Emacs. Other than that, it's just bike-shedding, indeed. Štěpán _______________________________________________ implementations-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/implementations-list
