Re: Moving GLib and GTK+ to git

[Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet gmail com>]

Le Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:06:56 -0400,
David Zeuthen <david fubar dk> a écrit :

> On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 17:03 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Behdad Esfahbod
> > <behdad behdad org> wrote:
> > > On 03/31/2009 03:50 PM, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Personally I prefer non-capital and no periods; it makes the
> > >> output of 'git log |git shortlog' nicer to look at (see [1] for
> > >> an example) but maybe that's just me. I think capital letters
> > >> would work nice here too; trailing periods would probably look
> > >> weird though.
> > >
> > > While I prefer to capitalize sentence starters, NOT capitalizing
> > > makes it easier to start a commit summary with an API symbol name
> > > or other identifiers that should not be capitalized.
> > 
> > I don't have any strong preferences. How about the following
> > amended version:
> > 
> >   First line (the brief description) must only be one sentence and
> >   should start with a capital letter unless it starts with a
> > lowercase symbol or identifier. Don't use a trailing period either.
> > Don't exceed 72 characters.
> 
> Sounds good to me. And it would be really nice to enforce this using a
> git hook (repeating myself, I know).

Except the 72 characters, cause you will really want a better terminal
instead.  It's mostly a recommendation to enforce a short summary, but
even 100 characters should be fine.

My 2 cents
Mike