[poky] Commit and Patch message guidelines - fifth draft

Leon Woestenberg leon.woestenberg at gmail.com
Sun May 15 08:03:26 PDT 2011


Hello Mark,

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
> <...> Let the code
> tell the story of the mechanics of the change (as much as possible), and let
> your comment tell the other details -- i.e. what the problem was, how it
> manifested itself (symptoms), and if necessary, the justification for why the
> fix was done in manner that it was.
>
In other words, the long commit message must describe *why* the change
was needed (instead of what has changed).

I find this item the most lacking in current OpenEmbedded/Poky related commits.

Thanks for working on this,
-- 
Leon



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