Hi and thanks again, > It is best to use change-log-mode for formatting commit log messages, > as it will allow you to use M-q and other conveniences, and will obey > the formatting according to our conventions. Also, don't forget the > periods at the end of each sentence (I added them above). I tried using change-log-mode but it indented the whole commit message with 4 spaces when I used M-q on it. My current mode seems to do the job with M-q, I just didn't use it before (and it removes the : between lisp/autoinsert and (auto-insert-alist) which looks like the intended formatting since other commit logs are formatted this way).