Re: ChangeLog and commit messages

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Sun 18 Jun 2023 at 03:14PM +08, Po Lu wrote:

> 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.

Yes, it doesn't fit well with Emacs changelog practices ...

> 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?

... but this renders C-x v L so much less useful, and anyone who uses
git for other projects will be used to using that view of things a lot.

-- 
Sean Whitton