Rules for Commit Messages

[Gedare Bloom]

https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/Developer/Git#GitCommits

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 8:06 AM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I was looking for guidance on how we write a commit message to provide it to someone. Unfortunately, I don't see it in the Software Engineering Guide although I admit I could have missed it.
>
> I assume it would be something like this:
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> [area|file]: Brief description
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> Longer description hopefully giving a but of insight.
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> [ [closes|updates] #NNN.]
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> Commit message should be more useful than "fix bug" and give a solid indication in the title which part of RTEMS it applies to. Specific file, test, etc.or a functional area like a filesystem or scheduler.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> --joel
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