Re: The fixes-bug field

[Yuri Khan]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Jarek Czekalski
<address@hidden> wrote:
> W dniu 2014-01-17 08:58, Paul Eggert pisze:
>>     Fix misdisplay of interlaced GIFs with libgif5 (Bug#16372).
>
> While this example seems perfect, please note that the following would be
> not good:
>
> Fixed Bug#16372

Indeed. The first line (summary) of a commit message must be
descriptive enough when the log is displayed in one-line format. The
rule of thumb is to treat the commit message summary as an email
subject, and the rest of the commit message as the body of an email
message accompanying a patch.