[Qgis-developer] commit logs verbosity

[Werner Macho]

+1 from me !!!
(although I don't see the necessarity of writing more than one line when
updating some language files ;) )

regards
Werner


On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:

> Dear qgis committers, may I ask you to make your commit logs
> more verbose than a bare ticket number reference ?
>
> It is nice to be able to know what's going on by simply reading
> the git log, without the need for a network connection and
> a running and live bug tracker.
>
> Also commands like `git log --grep=<some_keyword>` become nearly
> useless if the commit log contains no description of what's changed.
>
> Ideally the log would have 1 line with short description and a
> longer description in a second paragraph. Note that this format
> is also expected by `git format-patch` which turns the first line
> into a mail subject and the subsequent paragraph to the body.
> Also github pull requests use the same semantic for interpreting
> the log.
>
> Thanks everyone for your attention to source repository quality :)
>
> --strk;
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