llvm dev - Mar 2015 - [LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] Commit message policy?

Hi John, Chandler, I completely agree.

Cheers,
Renato
On 25 Sep 2014 17:39, "John Criswell" <jtcriswel at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Two quick comments:
>
> 1) Don't suggest that titles be 70 characters but that 80 is okay. Just
> say they should be at 70 characters and leave it at that.
>
> 2) +1 for Chandler's comment that what is really needed are ideas on
how
> to write meaningful descriptions of what was changed.  Poorly written
> descriptions of what was changed is the number one reason I curse at commit
> logs.
>
> -- John T.
>
>
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Hi Renato,

Did anything ever happen with this?

 -Hal

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Renato Golin" <renato.golin at linaro.org>
> To: "John Criswell" <jtcriswel at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Clang Dev" <cfe-dev at cs.uiuc.edu>, "LLVM
Dev" <llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 12:09:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [cfe-dev] [LLVMdev] Commit message policy?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi John, Chandler, I completely agree.
> 
> Cheers,
> Renato
> On 25 Sep 2014 17:39, "John Criswell" < jtcriswel at gmail.com
> wrote:
> 
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> Two quick comments:
> 
> 1) Don't suggest that titles be 70 characters but that 80 is okay.
> Just say they should be at 70 characters and leave it at that.
> 
> 2) +1 for Chandler's comment that what is really needed are ideas on
> how to write meaningful descriptions of what was changed. Poorly
> written descriptions of what was changed is the number one reason I
> curse at commit logs.
> 
> -- John T.
> 
> 
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-- 
Hal Finkel
Assistant Computational Scientist
Leadership Computing Facility
Argonne National Laboratory

On 6 March 2015 at 18:33, Hal Finkel <hfinkel at anl.gov>
wrote:
> Hi Renato,
>
> Did anything ever happen with this?
Nope. People didn't want to commit to limits but still have a
guideline. I'm of the view that guidelines are meant to be ignored.

Do you want to continue pushing this?

cheers,
--renato