Re: Mistakes in commit log messages

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2023 14:23:02 -0700
> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
> Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Oh, and just to give an idea of how common incorrect commit messages 
> are, my hook says that out of the last 5000 commits, 866 have a problem, 
> excluding the Eglot commits.
> 
> If I also ignore lines starting with "*" that have no "/" in them (these 
> are almost always due to an unnecessary leading "*" on the first line of 
> the commit), we get down to 196 bad commit messages, or 3.9% of commits.

And that's _a_lot_, no matter how you count them.  Which should give
people here some idea why I raised this issue in the first place: I
needed to fix all those cases by hand while working on the pretest
tarball.