Re: First CommitFest: July 15th

David Fetter wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 09:12:55AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> It would help me a lot when putting together the patches section in
> the PostgreSQL Weekly News.

OK, someone want to write a wiki that explains our new preferred commit
message format?

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