[vtk-developers] Commit log guidelines

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

To resurrect this topic, I've created this MR:

https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge_requests/1846

I'm also including excellent comments from Will about comments for
merge-requests.

Thoughts?
Utkarsh

On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 16:23:25 -0600, David Gobbi wrote:
>> These are very nice sentences that express complete ideas.  Perhaps
>> they are compacted somewhat by removal of articles "the", "a", etc.
>> but that's no reason to deprive them of their sentence-ness by removing
>> the capitalization.
>
> Well, the removal of the period at the end makes it look weirder to me.
> But I guess the base feeling is that:
>
>     vtkCore: fix linking
>
> looks better than:
>
>     vtkCore: Fix linking
>
> to me. *shrug*
>
> I'm not too worried about commit style as much as just good commit
> messages.
>
> --Ben
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