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    <p>I friend of mine and I had a discussion a few days back about the size of a commit message when using version control systems. I had the idea of committing often and small when he on the other hand used larger commit message but instead committed not so often.</p> <p>I've always heard that you should, at least as a beginner, do it my way; small commit messages often. You should, if possible, summarize your commit in one sentence.</p> <p>But I get the opposite feeling when looking at pro's like <a href="http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds" rel="nofollow">Linus Torvalds</a>. Here is one commit message from him on the <a href="https://github.com/torvalds/subsurface" rel="nofollow">subsurface</a> project on github.</p> <blockquote> <p>This makes it consider them to be identical if they are within half a bar of each other. If you edit the pressures by hand and set them to the same bar pressure as the samples, they may not be identical to the last milli-bar, but clearly the manually entered cylinder pressure isn't significantly different from the sample data, so consider it redundant.<br> We do want manual overrides of cylinder pressures to take precedence over sample data (as Dirk so eloquently puts it, some dive computers really don't have very reliable sample data), but at the same time the sample data is the one we are expecting to be fairly accurate. The starting and ending pressure overrides are for when there is no sample data, or when the sample data is totally wrong for some reason.<br> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds </p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://github.com/torvalds/subsurface/commit/b4938ec2de87c3a43b749a1607d3bacb17d37cff" rel="nofollow">Here</a> is the commit message in question.</p> <p>I took a look at my own commit message (I've a few thousand of them) and they are most often always less than 40 characters.</p> <p>Anyone got some input on the question?</p>
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    1. COThis is soliciting opinion and debate rather than there actually being a specific answer. It would be better suited for community wiki rather than a question.
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    2. COhttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/3011471/proper-commit-messages http://stackoverflow.com/questions/321720/best-practices-for-version-control-comments http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43598/suggestions-for-a-good-commit-message-format-guideline
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