Subject: bug#36208: 26.2.50; Add tooling for commit message format checking

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 17:21:16 +0100

Damien Cassou <[email-masked]> writes:

> writing commit messages that comply with Emacs' guidelines requires a
> good understanding of many details described in CONTRIBUTE.  To reduce
> the workload of new contributors and of reviewers, part of these
> guidelines could be transformed into tools.
>
> Here are some of the checks that humans have to do these days:
>
> 1. dots after every sentence (even just "New function" must terminate
>    with a dot)
> 2. double-space after dots ending sentences
> 3. no indentation (M-q adds 2 spaces which we don't want)

Are you using Magit's git-commit-mode?  If so, see PR #3911:
https://github.com/magit/magit/pull/3911

Thanks,

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Basil