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On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Christopher Yeoh <cbkyeoh at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>wrote:Commit message quality has improved somewhat since I first wrote &
> published
>
>  that page, but there's definitely still scope to improve things further.
>> What
>> it really needs is for more reviewers to push back against badly written
>> commit messages, to nudge authors into the habit of being more verbose in
>> their commits.
>>
>>
> Agreed. There is often "what" and sometimes "why", but not very often
> "how" in commit messages.
>

++

Beyond the one line summary (which *should* describe "what" changed),
describing "what" changed in the commit message is entirely redundant with
the commit itself.


>
>  Chris
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