Re: Moving GLib and GTK+ to git

[Christian Dywan <christian imendio com>]

Am Wed, 1 Apr 2009 08:43:45 +0200
schrieb 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.

For what I want, it also makes summaries nicer and enables you to keep
editor or repository viewer windows small. Even though it's the
traditional origin I don't think old terminals are the sole reason.

Just my 2 pfennig,
    Christian