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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Saptarshi Purkayastha <sunbiz@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I have been looking at the commit messages that developers have added and
> looking at them in the long-term, they will become useless because we lack
> detail. I suggest that we should have some standard for commit messages.
>
> *My suggested format:*
>
> <module-name>: [author] - [bug fix] - <changes or implemented feature>
>
> [author], [bug fix] - is optional... [author] should be included if you are
> applying a patch or committing code that someone else has written
>
> I also suggest that we should add lp:id when fixing any bug filed under our
> project bug list. This automatically links the bazaar commits with launchpad
> bug ids.
>
> Please comment if you have some other formats and we all need to follow
> that commit msg format.
>


Sounds a like a good convention to me.

Lars