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

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:44:14PM +0800, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 03:27:40PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 09:46:34AM +0800, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > 75 chars for commit messages, and 50 for commit titles :-)
> 
> I'd agree that 75 char is better. My personal preference is actually
> 68 :) 
> 
I just go with what vim uses on my machine, because vim is always right :-)