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

  • From: "Ingo Weinhold" <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:09:27 +0100

Ingo Weinhold wrote:

Oops, shot to fast...

> 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

Incidentally these are also the limits that git-cola highlights.


> 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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