From: Anurag Priyam <anurag08priyam@...>
Date: 2011-06-13T22:09:56+09:00
Subject: Re: commit message conventions

> In other words, commits should read like they're e-mails: a short
> subject, followed by a blank line, followed by a body.

A lot of OSS projects including Git do this. Optionally (depending on
their policies) you include a Signed-off-by: Your name <your email>
line to indicate that you are providing this patch under the licensing
terms of that project. Personally, I tend to dump whatever I was
thinking while making that commit into the commit message.

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Anurag Priyam
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