Re: git: 9f1b1be53d96 - main - *: Updated guacamole-[server|client] to 1.4.0

Yeah someone complained about how I was formatting it a couple
of months back. Will follow the "topic: action" format as would be
more appropriate than asterisk. The 72 character limit is very limiting
thought.

Best regards,
Richard Gallamore

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 8:19 AM Rene Ladan <rene@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 09:18:12AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 08:18:59AM +0000, Rene Ladan wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 02:15:34AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Jan 09, 2022 at 11:09:47PM +0000, Richard Gallamore wrote:
> > > > > commit 9f1b1be53d965ca9eedef7a6547eb47973c8dae0
> > > > >
> > > > >     *: Updated guacamole-[server|client] to 1.4.0
> > > >
> > > > There's no need to mutilate commit logs with `*:' anymore, JFYI.
> > >
> > > Talking about mutilating commit logs, how about using the contents
> > > of COMMENT as the first line of the commit log of newly added ports
> > > instead of a non-informative "new port has been added (+)" ?
> >
> > This is not mutilation: this won't work as COMMENT alone does not
> > constitute *action* inflicted on the port, and amending the COMMENT
> > with extra text to make it suitable for action won't fit the line
> > limit, which is even less than common ~72 characters due to stupid
> > four-characted padding git puts in front of the log.
> >
> Having a short description of what the port does is more useful
> than forcing the git summary in an active tense.
>
> René
>