Re: ChangeLog and commit messages

[Jose E. Marchesi]

> 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.

When I find myself in that situation, I interpret it as a sign that the
problem is better (more naturally) handled by several commits instead of
just one.

> 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?

I wouldn't recommend that.  It makes `git log --oneline' useless.