From ee6ce753f583e660e4c974ec7ea2b7fe91b46912 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:14:22 -0400 Subject: add git commit summary guidelines --- HACKING | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'HACKING') diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index 267f008a..de8b94b4 100644 --- a/HACKING +++ b/HACKING @@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ the mailing list. Some subdirectories have ChangeLog files of their own, so make sure you find the correct ones to prepend. + In the git commit message, make the first line an brief summary of + the patch. There is no need to transcribe the ChangeLog entries there. + - test suites As far as practicable, changes should be accompanied by test cases -- cgit