Please use conventional commit messages (Re: git: 2a9b7ca2a362)

Rene Ladan rene at freebsd.org
Wed Apr 28 12:44:24 UTC 2021


On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 11:53:46AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 12:36:39PM +0200, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 28 April 2021 12:17:13 CEST Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > > commit 2a9b7ca2a3620249bfad050ac3eee6d859926213
> > > ...
> > > 
> > >     Update `www/web2ldap' to version 1.5.117.
> > 
> > Please use conventional commit messages, for consistency with the rest of
> > the ports commits and convenience for consumers -- humans looking at commits
> > through tools like email, qgit and gitk (desktop-applications), cgit (git-web
> > browser) and git log (CLI).
> 
> I think it is conventional enough.  I'd prefer it even better without the
> embedded port name, but I guess I can buy the reasoning why people want to
> see it there.  As for its position, I find "foo/bar: blah" inconvenient,
> unnatural, and hard to read.
> 
This just makes scanning commit mails harder.

René


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