Re: First CommitFest: July 15th

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 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>

Sure, I can use that format if we decide to be consistent.

> 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

Interesting idea to have a subject line for the commit message.

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