Hello,
With the switch to git and Gerrit, we should start formatting our commit
message. Over the last days, you might have noticed I have amended a few
changes in mediawiki/core.git.
Both git and gerrit use the first line of a message as a summary of the
commit which is probably more human friendly than a sha1.
In Gerrit it is used when referring to a parent commit and as a subject
for email notifications.
In git it is very helpful when using `log --oneline` or cherry-picking a
commit, or rebasing interactively.
Inspired by various online resources, I have started writing guidelines
and even provided some screen captures:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Commit_message_guidelines
Edits welcome :-D
See also:
http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Git/Introduction#Good_commit_messages
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Antoine "hashar" Musso