Re: New Git hooks for checking file names in commit messages

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 23:59:33 -0700
> Cc: john@yates-sheets.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
> 
> On 4/21/2023 11:11 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 10:44:10 -0700
> >> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
> >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org
> >>
> >> Eli, what do you think? I've run this against the 5000 latest commits
> >> and the results look right (though I haven't looked as thoroughly as
> >> last time).
> > 
> > I think the hooks should follow the GNU Standards (which are also our
> > conventions), not their particular expressions in algorithms used by
> > authors.el.
> 
> I *think* in this case, the two are the same... or at least the relevant 
> algorithms in authors.el are consistent with the GNU standards. I don't 
> see a strict set of rules in the GNU standards, so I had to make some 
> guesses based on the examples and the implementation in authors.el.

The programmatic expression of the standards is in add-log.el, I
think.