Re: [RFC] Commit messages - WAS Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: What means bup?

[Peter Stuge]

M. J. Everitt wrote:
> I'm thinking something along the lines of the following:
> - Line one is limited to <cat>/<pkg> and some Key Word that defines the
> type of change made, similar to bugzilla perhaps eg. "REVBUMP, VERBUMP,
> EAPIBUMP, BUGFIX, PATCH, FEATUREREQ, OTHER". This would get around the
> issue of long package-names and/or overlays and other lengthy prefixes.

This would remove one of two information atoms in commit messages,
reducing human expression in commit messages to mere 50%,
or to 0% for --oneline output.

I think that's unacceptably poor usability.


> This should satisfy line length limitations,

My counter-proposal is to bup the repoman line length limitation.


//Peter