On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 09:52 +0300, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 09:33 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 18:11 +0300, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > > > --- > > > > Pulled to my tree with a fix to the commit message since I'd like to > > (somewhat) standardise the namespaces for commit messages. > > Do you mean that you'd like to only ever use "alsa" as the commit prefix > for anything alsa related? I don't really like that - I think the > precision for example with "alsa-card" is useful. The information could > be added to the main part of the commit message, for example "alsa: > Handle the profile modarg in module-alsa-card", but I don't see any real > improvement in that. And in this case the message is reasonably short, > but often you have to work harder to make the headline reasonably brief, > and the prefix usually can express things more concisely than the > "natural language" of the main headline sentence. What are the benefits > of limiting the number of available prefixes? I did go with the same thing that you suggested. Same information, but keeps a standard prefix. There's nothing concrete at the moment that will be aided by this consistency, but at some point it might be handy to be able to group messages by such prefixes (for reporting/statistics, fancier shortlogs, ...). -- Arun
