Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC pre-GLEP] Gentoo Git Workflow

[Michał Górny]

On wto, 2017-07-25 at 08:54 -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote:
> On 07/25/2017 04:05, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Hi, everyone.
> >
> > There have been multiple attempts at grasping this but none so far
> > resulted in something official and indisputable. At the same time, we
> > end having to point our users at semi-official guides which change
> > in unpredictable ways.
> >
> > Here's the current draft:
> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:MGorny/GLEP:Git
> >
> > The basic idea is that the GLEP provides basic guidelines for using git,
> > and then we write a proper manual on top of it (right now, all the pages
> > about it end up as a mix of requirements and a partial git manual).
> >
> > What do you think about it? Is there anything else that needs being
> > covered?
> >
> > Copy of the markup for inline comments follows.
>
> I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but will this GLEP update or replace this
> existing Wiki article on using git w/ Gentoo?:
>
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_git_workflow

We will probably remove it in favor of a proper devmanual section.
Proxy-maint already stopped using it because there's too much noise
there.

> Some of the step-by-step bits in the above Wiki page look like good candidates
> to be integrated into the GLEP.

Could you be more specific?

>   It also contains guidelines on writing commit
> messages, such as limiting the first line to ~50 characters, an optional body
> wrapped at 75 chars/line, and including the usual git tags for sign-off and
> such.  Though, I like the explicitness of the GLEP's text on a few things more.

There is a large section on commit messages in the GLEP. Though it uses
69 as the technical limit of summary line, since ~50 is realistically
hard to achieve for Gentoo.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny