Re: ChangeLog and commit messages

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 15:14:50 +0800
> 
> I find myself often frustrated that Git requires a commit title.  In
> such a title, committers are expected to summarize in detail changes to
> dozens of different functions in less than 74 characters of text.
> 
> Normally, the place for such descriptions would be in ChangeLog and not
> the commit message title.  Would it be possible to allow writing commit
> messages consisting solely of ChangeLog, forgoing the commit title
> entirely?

How would that work, exactly?  Do you want to switch back to Bazaar or
CVS?

OTOH, I don't really understand the difficulties of summarizing a
commit in a single line.  I rarely if ever have problems with that.