Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name> writes:

>> also not as obvious (you search for lines added or removed or changed,
>> not easy language such as 'gnu: package-name: Add').
>
>
> i'm pretty sure that the source of the annoyance is not the strict
> format in the summary line, but the formal details in the commit
> message body.

Agreed, but my point still holds.  The search space of our ChangeLog
messages is much smaller than that of the whole code base, thus is
faster (more efficient) and can be done interactively easily from the
'git log' output in your favorite $PAGER, as Andreas mentioned.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim