[Qgis-developer] Please stop spamming commit logs!

[Sandro Santilli]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 10:18:53AM +0200, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
> I agree with Nathan and Nyall. The commit history isn't a very
> "official" thing, so there is some room for attribution and other
> additional information.
> 
> Personally I prefer a meaningful commit message with some "spam" in
> it over a commit message that contains (almost) no useful
> information like "Fix #1234", "Fix #4567 [Meaningless title of an
> issue report]" "Followup 65443" (That one is not so bad, but could
> be improved with some prose). I often find myself looking at the
> commit history to find information about why something was done.
> IF something needs to be fixed in the commit log, then we should
> rather focus on this than on a bit of pride, fun and attribution.

+1

On a related note, keeping commit lines within 70 columns and
separating short description line from long description body
with two newlines also helps a lot :)

--strk;