Vegard Øye <[email protected]> writes:
On 2010-08-29 20:27, Štěpán Němec wrote:
As to the history modifications Vegard made: he also decided that commit summaries without periods are better than the former practice, so he modified (almost) all the commit messages. (Vegard, could you please also adjust the recommendations in CONTRIBUTE to that effect?)
Done in commit dcf0f9b. Nobody followed this rule anyway, so it made more sense to get rid of it. :)
*cough* I've stated my (quite different) opinion on the matter already to you in private, but let me repeat for the others, too: Apart from a _very_ few exceptions, _everybody_ ended the commit summaries with a period. Period. (I still have the old Git tree handy in case you don't.) Some other projects, including both GNU Emacs and XEmacs, also end commit summaries with a period. (The question whether "most" do or don't should be left to statisticians.) In my opinion, the switch was unwarranted, but I don't care too much -- it's just impractical both because of the commmit rewriting involved, and in case you wanted to merge or contribute to Emacs. Other than that, it's just bike-shedding, indeed. Štěpán