Re: Moving GLib and GTK+ to git

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 17:03 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org> 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.
> 
> I don't have any strong preferences. How about the following amended version:
> 
>   First line (the brief description) must only be one sentence and
>   should start with a capital letter unless it starts with a lowercase symbol
>   or identifier. Don't use a trailing period either. Don't exceed 72 characters.

Sounds good to me. And it would be really nice to enforce this using a
git hook (repeating myself, I know).

     David