Subject: bug#25663: [bug-diffutils] bug#25663: verify macro in system.h incorrectly expects 8 byte long for 64-bit builds on Windows/Visual Studio

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 00:06:33 -0800

Kees Dekker wrote:
> If you have an additional source of information, it would be great. I'm new to git, so I will try to do so.

I'm afraid it's not written down in a central location. There are books about 
Git and it's not that hard to pick up. You can look at the Emacs CONTRIBUTE file 
for some advice about commit messages.

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/CONTRIBUTE