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[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Cimi brought something up on IRC that is dear to my heart.

Can we consider keeping the first line in commit messages sacred? Making 
them concise descriptions of the actual change. Yes, I dare not say... 
like git shortlog :-) In particular also adding a 80 char limit.
Behold the two screenshots attached. 
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~unity-team/unity/trunk/changes and 'bzr ll' 
could produce super valuable information, but right now they are close 
to useless.
Every other FOSS project on the planet can get this right (ok, not true, 
but I want it to be true!), maybe we can as well? ;-)
And, to those who say "Uhhh, I never use the history anyway". Have you 
considered that this is a self fulfilling prophecy?
Cheers,
Mikkel

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