Proposal for a MacPorts'ish commit message template

Lawrence Velázquez larryv at macports.org
Fri Nov 4 10:34:46 PDT 2016


> On Nov 4, 2016, at 1:30 PM, Marko Käning <mk-macports at posteo.net> wrote:
> 
> Oh, I’d be using vim as well, good to know that it does support git.
> I didn’t know that vim would be able to treat commit message line
> formatting for the first and the 3r+ lines differently with 50 and 72
> chars respectively.

It doesn't really do anything differently w.r.t. wrapping, but it
highlights subject-line overflow in an alarming red color.

> Well, this was a trigger for a discussion about the topic of
> a template which potentially could make the committer’s life easier...
> But I understood in the meantime that I could have just used my spare
> time much better for other things than trying to care about such silly
> things like a commit template. I thought what KDE has is a good
> starting point and I believed MacPorts devs would see value in it.
> I have now been taught that I wasted my time and yours.

Not a waste of time! Can't know what the water is like without dipping
your toe in. We appreciate your enthusiasm :)

vq


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