[cmake-developers] Commit message 'subject' lines

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Tue Jun 22 11:21:38 EDT 2010


Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> commit fb1eb141b5ab2e939f512976779cdff0801c05cf
> Author: Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre at gmail.com>
> Date:   Tue Jun 22 17:11:39 2010 +0200
> 
>     Apply patch from B. King on ML

This gives a reader no information about the change.

Please use descriptive summary lines.  They get used in the
release candidate change logs like this one:

  http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=7f662c5c

A better message might be

  FindOpenSSL: Fix HINTS and PATHS variable references

Thanks,
-Brad


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