Git commit messages

[chiralcentre]

Can I check with the teaching team if we will be penalised for not following Git commit message conventions? Currently I noticed that I forgot to capitalise the first word of my commit messages thus far. Is there any way to remedy this before the deadline?

[damithc]

@chiralcentre Yes, it is graded. We only check the last 10 commits though.

[chiralcentre]

Thank you Prof for the response! Just to clarify, are you referring to the last 10 commits in master for each person, or the last 10 commits in master as a whole?

[damithc]

Thank you Prof for the response! Just to clarify, are you referring to the last 10 commits in master for each person, or the last 10 commits in master as a whole?

@chiralcentre each person. Note that commits of a merged branch become commits of the master branch. So, if you were to merge a branch with 10 of your commits, those 10 commits will be counted as your commits in the master branch.

[drustanyjt]

@damithc our team was working on documentation together by going through each line, committing at every few lines of changes, and as a result our most recent commits look something like this:

While it technically follows the formatting instructions of messages, would it be better to reset and squash the repetitive commits into one (for grading purposes)?

[damithc]

@drustanyjt Small commits are good. In future, you can make the commit message more descriptive e.g., Fix typo in DG: haad -> had