[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] scripts: check commit formatting

[Yuanhan Liu]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:29:46PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> The git messages have three parts:
> 1/ the headline
> 2/ the explanations
> 3/ the footer tags
> 
> The headline helps to quickly browse an history or catch instantly the
> purpose of a commit. Making it short with some consistent wording
> allows to easily parse it or match some patterns.
> 
> The explanations must give some keys like the reason of the change.
> Nothing can be automatically checked for this part.

Actually, I think we might be able to do 2 tests here:

- space line between paragraphs.

- lines over 80 chars.

	--yliu