[vtk-developers] Commit log guidelines

Ben Boeckel ben.boeckel at kitware.com
Wed Jun 1 08:39:22 EDT 2016


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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