On 5/27/25 17:27, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 10:20:08AM -0400, Joe Conway wrote:
>> On 5/23/25 09:47, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> > On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 09:54:54AM +0200, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
>> > > I also think that showing an XML-ish format of a commit message is
>> > > unhelpful, not to mention hard to read. Showing a few actual examples
>> > > would be better.
>> >
>> > Agreed, but the XML came from Joe Conway so I am hesitant to remove it
>> > myself without feedback from him.
>>
>>
>> I am not married to it, but I would say that I find pure examples
>> confusing/ambiguous. To me at least the XML-ish specification is easier to
>> understand.
>>
>> Perhaps both the specification as-is and one or two examples added?
>
> Yeah, I think some people like syntax, others like examples.
What do you think about providing links into the archives for good
representative log messages rather than making up a contrived example
and/or copy/pasting them into the wiki page itself?
Also, looking at the wiki page, my inclination would be to add an
"Examples" section at the bottom of the wiki page -- does that work or
do you think it ought to go just under the "General layout" syntax section?
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