Re: git commit message conventions

[Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>]

On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 10:14:19AM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> I propose that at this point we specifically do not adopt any further 
> conventions regarding how commit messages relate to ChangeLog entries 

However, I would love to see us progress to a stage where maintainers
can simply do a git-am on the patch mbox and push the patch instead of
manually patching, massaging the ChangeLog, massaging the NEWS file
and then preparing the commit.  The former will take care of most
cases where a maintainer may forget to set --author when committing
someone else's patch.  I try to make sure I do it for all commits, but
it's happened more than once that I realized that I hadn't set
--author after I had pushed the patch.

The part of NEWS that usually conflicts (the bug list) ought to be
generated from bugzilla.  I've said before that I don't find the
ChangeLog format useful at all, but others have expressed their
preference to keep it, so that IMO is the only blocker to us following
the git-am workflow.

Oh, and using the git-am workflow also allows us to automate patchwork
so that we don't have to send reminders to clean up their patches
there.

Siddhesh

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