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@@ -49,3 +49,24 @@ the right to pass it on as an open source patch. See: http://gerrit.googlecode.com/svn/documentation/2.0/user-signedoffby.html +Also, please write good git commit messages. A good commit message +looks like this: + + header line: explaining the commit in one line + + Body of commit message is a few lines of text, explaining things + in more detail, possibly giving some background about the issue + being fixed, etc etc. + + The body of the commit message can be several paragrahps, and + please do proper word-wrap and keep columns shorter than about + 74 characters or so. That way "git log" will show things + nicely even when it's indented. + + Reported-by: whoever-reported-it + Signed-off-by: Your Name <youremail@yourhost.com> + +where that header line really should be meaningful, and really should be +just one line. That header line is what is shown by tools like gitk and +shortlog, and should summarize the change in one readable line of text, +independently of the longer explanation. |