Hi! tl;dr <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/commit-message-validator> Commit messages are pretty important - they make it easy to figure out what a change does without reading the entire diff. And because of that, we have some guidelines[1] on how to format your commit message in the standard way. But sometimes people aren't familiar with the guidelines, or more likely we make a typo somewhere. Here's where the commit-message-validator[2] comes in handy! $ git commit <type in commit message and save> commit-message-validator v0.5.1 The following errors were found: Line 1: First line should be <=80 characters Line 3: Bug: value must be a single phabricator task ID Please review <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Commit_message_guidelines> and update your commit message accordingly Or if you did a good job: commit-message-validator v0.5.1 Commit message is formatted properly! Keep up the good work! Installing it as a git hook is the recommended usage, and instructions on the wiki page[2] explain how to do so, even for people who aren't familiar with Python. The tool was written by Bryan Davis, Fabian Neundorf, and myself. Bugs/feature requests can be filed in the Phabricator project. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Commit_message_guidelines [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Commit-message-validator -- Legoktm _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l