[racket-dev] Commit messages in git

This was already a part of the Style sheet draft, but I have taken Eli's message and refined the section on commits. 



On Aug 27, 2011, at 10:04 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:

> I see that it's becoming semi common to write commit messages that
> look like:
> 
>  | some quick description
>  |   more blah blah blah, with more
>  |   details about the actual change
> 
> Note that to do things properly, you should instead have an empty line
> between the "subject" part and the rest of the text:
> 
>  | some quick description
>  | 
>  | more blah blah blah, with more
>  | details about the actual change
> 
> There's no need for the indentation either.  This way many tools that
> show git logs with a short description will use
> 
>  some quick description
> 
> instead of an ugly:
> 
>  some quick description   more blah blah blah, with more   details about the actual change
> 
> 
> (And BTW, if you commit on the command line with a `-m' flag, then you
> can use multiple `-m's.)
> 
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