Re: Referring to revisions in the git future.

[Stefan Monnier]

>> About summary lines, a reminder: Please don't write the traditional
>> GNUish run-on change comment with a semi-infinite number of bulleted
>> items in it any more.
>     That's your opinion, but the convention we still use here (and don't
>     just recommend but *request* people to follow) is the GNU ChangeLog
>     format.
> You can have both.  In other GNU projects using git (gdb, binutils) we
> include a summary line for the benefit of `git log --oneline', followed
> by an extended description in a separated paragraph(s) and finally the
> ChangeLog entries.

We do like to have a summary line as well, indeed (that's part of the
reason why 24.4 has now "Summary:" in the default content of the
*VC-Log* buffer where you write your commit message).  But Eric was
recommending not to include the full ChangeLog thingy.


        Stefan