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[John Griffith <john.griffith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Brian Waldon
<brian.waldon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've written up a short guide in Nova's HACKING.rst on how to write useful
> commit messages: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/9118/.
>
> The driving factor here is the amount of time I've personally spent coaching
> people through the process of composing a commit message. I believe we would
> all benefit from writing better commit messages, so I'm taking the first
> step by getting a common guide written up. All feedback is appreciated!
>
> Brian Waldon
>
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I like it... one possible enhancement, for visual folks like myself,
would it be of any value to include and example?  Or pointer to a
dummy commit message in gerrit, on a wiki, or wherever?  Even a
template perhaps.

Just looking in gerrit on your own is fine of course too, but who
knows, maybe you'll come across one that's incorrect :(