STANDARD FORMAT FOR COMMIT MESSAGES ----------------------------------- This message is for Laurent, Daniel, and all people that will have a write access to the svn repository in the future. I want to have a standard way to write commit messages, so that ChangeLog can be almost automatically generated. The format is the following: * A ChangeLog slot, between '[' & ']' * A ChangeLog modification: a '*', a space, the word 'BUG','NEW' or 'OPT', a colon, a space, and the text. 'BUG' for a fix, 'NEW' for a new feature, and 'OPT' for an optimization. Slots are the name of the component, in uppercase if possible, or some other slots like [INTERPRETER], [COMPILER]... All lines must be lower or equal than 76 characters. If a changelog modification is more than one line, you must use a two space indent. Void lines are ignored. All other lines won't go into the changelog. For example: --8<----------- I did this thing, and this won't go into the changelog. [GB.QT] * BUG: I fixed this bug. * NEW: I made this very long modification....   and it takes more than one line to write it. This won't go into the changelog too. [GB.SDL] * BUG: What an awful bug! [GB.GTK] * NEW: I finally finished the component :-) --8<----------- It would be cool to follow this scheme. I will start at my next commit. -- Benoit.