Re: Moving GLib and GTK+ to git

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 15:58 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On 03/31/2009 03:50 PM, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > Personally I prefer non-capital and no periods; it makes the output of
> > 'git log |git shortlog' nicer to look at (see [1] for an example) but
> > maybe that's just me. I think capital letters would work nice here too;
> > trailing periods would probably look weird though.
> 
> While I prefer to capitalize sentence starters, NOT capitalizing makes it 
> easier to start a commit summary with an API symbol name or other identifiers 
> that should not be capitalized.

OTOH for the other style sometimes you want to start the summary with an
abbreviation, e.g. "HIG fixes".

FWIW, my view is that we should capitalize summaries as most of the
summaries from the importer already starts with a capital letter.

     David