Commit message guidelines: Difference between revisions

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Individual files you touched get their changes separately enumerated. If there a particular C or C++ function you changed, the general format is
Individual files you touched get their changes separately enumerated. If there a particular C or C++ function you changed, the general format is


     * file.cc (class1::function1): Made change foo.  
     * file.cc (class1::function1): Make change foo.  
       (class2::function2): Made change bar.
       (class2::function2): Make change bar.


Note the newline for describing the change to a different function. General GNU style guidelines can be followed here, so that similar changes to different files can be grouped.
Note the newline for describing the change to a different function. General GNU style guidelines can be followed here, so that similar changes to different files can be grouped.