During our first weeks using git, we have been asking people to write nice summary lines since they are used in Gerrit email notifications and in git log. I wrote a basic guideline (which has been improved since) that people can be pointed at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Commit_message_guidelines

On 18/10/12 19:08, Antoine Musso wrote: That's interesting. I usually don't put the bug number in the first line, because there's not enough room for it. There's barely enough room to fit in the most simplified summary of a change in 62 characters, and the bug number would take up 12, leaving you only 50. Consider if you wanted to say what function it is you changed. Here's a histogram of lengths of "ClassName::methodName" strings from $wgAutoloadClasses on my test wiki: length count ---------------- 9 1 10 1 11 4 12 7 13 3 14 2 15 6 16 13 17 15 18 16 19 29 20 32 21 55 22 62 23 106 24 149 25 152 26 177 27 225 28 258 29 297 30 301 31 338 32 355 33 328 34 290 35 282 36 240 37 204 38 220 39 172 40 173 41 141 42 126 43 80 44 88 45 69 46 63 47 53 48 27 49 31 50 26 51 23 52 9 53 10 54 10 55 4 56 5 57 5 58 8 59 1 60 4 61 4 62 3 63 1 64 1 65 2 66 1 67 0 68 1 69 1 70 0 71 0 72 1 73 1 Really, 62 characters is ridiculously short, and the existence of that limit is a flaw in git, but at least you can write a typical method name preceded by the word "fixed". With a limit of 50, you often can't. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l