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From: Tobias Klausmann <klausman@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC pre-GLEP] Gentoo Git Workflow
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 10:59:47
Message-Id: 20170725105921.GA17195@skade.schwarzvogel.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC pre-GLEP] Gentoo Git Workflow by "Michał Górny"
1 Hi!
2
3 On Tue, 25 Jul 2017, Michał Górny wrote:
4 > The summary line is included in the short logs (<kbd>git log --
5 > oneline</kbd>, gitweb, GitHub, mail subject) and therefore should
6 > provide a short yet accurate description of the change. The summary line
7 > starts with a logical unit name, followed by a colon, a space and a
8 > short description of the most important changes. If a bug is associated
9 > with a change, then it should be included in the summary line as
10 > <kbd>#nnnnnn</kbd> or likewise. The summary line must not exceed 69
11 > characters, and must not be wrapped.
12
13 This limit can be a problem if there's a nontrivial change to the
14 more than 80 packages in the tree that have more than forty characters in
15 cat/pkg[0]. Is the only option there to do word-smithing or
16 making the commit summary less usefu?
17
18 Or do we have a "violate if necessary" agreement regarding that?
19
20
21 Regards,
22 Tobias
23
24 [0]
25 $ cd /usr/portage
26 $ ls -d *-*/*|awk '{if (length>=40) {print length, $0}}'|sort -n
27
28
29 --
30 Sent from aboard the Culture ship
31 GSV Of Course I Still Love You

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