[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] scripts: check commit formatting

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Wed Mar 30 16:27:40 CEST 2016


On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 09:46:34AM +0800, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:29:46PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > The git messages have three parts:
> > 1/ the headline
> > 2/ the explanations
> > 3/ the footer tags
> > 
> > The headline helps to quickly browse an history or catch instantly the
> > purpose of a commit. Making it short with some consistent wording
> > allows to easily parse it or match some patterns.
> > 
> > The explanations must give some keys like the reason of the change.
> > Nothing can be automatically checked for this part.
> 
> Actually, I think we might be able to do 2 tests here:
> 
> - space line between paragraphs.
> 
> - lines over 80 chars.

75 chars for commit messages, and 50 for commit titles :-)

/Bruce
> 
> 	--yliu


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