Add commit message information to style guide

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William Hubbs 2011-07-13 13:30:38 -05:00
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return ret; return ret;
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# COMMIT MESSAGES #
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The following is an example of a correctly formatted git commit message
for this repository. Most of this information came from this blog post
[1], so I would like to thank the author.
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Capitalized, short (50 chars or less) summary
More detailed explanatory text, if necessary. Wrap it to about 72
characters or so. In some contexts, the first line is treated as the
subject of an email and the rest of the text as the body. The blank
line separating the summary from the body is critical (unless you omit
the body entirely); tools like rebase can get confused if you run the
two together.
Write your commit message in the present tense: "Fix bug" and not "Fixed
bug." This convention matches up with commit messages generated by
commands like git merge and git revert.
Further paragraphs come after blank lines.
- Bullet points are okay, too
- Typically a hyphen or asterisk is used for the bullet, preceded by a
single space, with blank lines in between, but conventions vary here
- Use a hanging indent
Reported-by: User Name <email>
X-[Distro]-Bug: BugID
X-[Distro]-Bug-URL: URL for the bug (on the distribution's web site typically)
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If you did not write the code and the patch does not include authorship
information in a format git can use, please use the --author option of the
git commit command to make the authorship correct.
The Reported-by tag is required if the person who reported the bug is
different from the author and committer.
The X-[Distro]-Bug/Bug-URL tags are required if this commit is related
to a bug reported to us by a specific distribution of linux or a
*BSD. Also, [Distro] should be replaced with the name of the
distribution, e.g. X-Gentoo-Bug.
[1] http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html