Re: First CommitFest: July 15th

On Saturday 04 July 2009 00:54:11 Robert Haas wrote:
> I think what would be more useful is if we could
> somehow associated metadata with each commit.  Right now, for example,
> the author of a patch is not stored with the patch in any structured
> way; it's just typed in, usually but not always as the last line of
> the commit.  So you can't easily find out what lines of code a certain
> person has touched, for example.  The sorts of problems that you're
> talking about seem broadly in the same vein.

I have been trying to follow a convention on-and-off to put the author of the 
patch in the last line of the commit message, like

Author: First Last <name@example.com>

A tool such as git-cvsimport will actually parse that and put it into the 
author field of a git commit.  (The tool we use, fromcvs, doesn't do that, but 
it could conceivably be patched easily to do it.)

I also found the following resource helpful in crafting commit messages: 
http://www.tpope.net/node/106