JetBrains

172 readers

1 users here now

A community for discussion and news relating to JetBrains and its products! https://www.jetbrains.com/

Related Communities

founded 10 months ago

MODERATORS

Vacant

After seeing people use the UI to commit to git I understand where all those - sorry: shitty - commit messages come from.... (phpc.social)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/jetbrains

42 comments fedilink hide all child comments

After seeing people use the @jetbrains UI to commit to git I understand where all those - sorry: shitty - commit messages come from....

🙈

An improvement would already be to have a "Subject" line and the text box.

And have the subject line follow the Beams Rule.

Sonthat the first line of the commit message finishes the sentence

"When this commit is applied it will..."

And please: No longer than 56(?) characters (Unicode). Keep it short. You got the textbox to explain *why* in full length.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

@BatmanAoD Besides that a git log and a changelog have different target audiences.

The gitlog is intended for contributors of the project whereas the chamgelog is intended for users of the project.

And it helps the users if they get a summarized version of what changed for them.without having to.go.theough each commit amd decide for themselves whether and how that internal change affects the exteenal API and then their usage of it.