[haiku-development] Re: [haiku] Subversion to Git migration scheduled for November 12, 2011

Axel Dörfler wrote:
> Alexander von Gluck<kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > A side note, the Haiku website documentation has been updated with a 
> > quick crash course in git and fancy workflow diagram I threw together using 
> > PulkoMandy's icons...
> > 
> > https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/building/get-source-git
> 
> Nice work!

+1

> There is one thing we should change, though: the commit message should 
> probably follow git's usual style, in order to benefit from its short message 
> view.
> That is, we should try a short summary in the first line. I wouldn't mind if 
> it were possible to put a bit more characters in there than the default, 
> though, as that's awfully brief.

I took the liberty to change the document in that respect. As a limit for the 
summary line I suggest 64, for the detail lines 72 characters. AFAIK 72 is the 
recommended length that also works well with email. Since tools often prefix 
the summary line by a short version of the hash (often 7 bytes) plus a space, 
so the limit is 8 chars shorter. Incidentally these are also the lin

I also added examples of how to set up short aliases for common git commands in 
the "Configure Git on your system".

Actually the whole "Git Access - Contributors with commit permission" section 
also applies to contributors without commit access, so it should probably be 
renamed.

CU, Ingo

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