[oe] Commit policy violations

[Koen Kooi]

On 16-10-2008 19:02, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Koen Kooi<k.kooi at student.utwente.nl>  writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have had a commit policy for some years now, so it would be nice if
>> people would actually stick to it.
>>
>> So don't do things like this:
>>
>> "[PR] Change PR to FILE_PR and intro PR as FILE_PR + DISTRO_PR"
>>
>> or
>>
>> "[hal] Add latest hal and hal-info"
>>
>> or
>>
>> "add task-fonts-truetype"
>>
>> Those 3 are all *bad*.
>
> Could you explain which would be the good ones?

The git phrasebook has the format:

http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/GitPhraseBook

Examples of decent commit messages from today[1]:

"hal_0.5.11.bb : add new version from OM branch"

"xmms: add sed magic to fix builds with gettext > 0.14.0"

"hal 0.5.11: move to nonworking:
* autoreconf fails
* after fixing that it doesn't build"

regards,

Koen

[1] That sentence no verb!