Re: FreeBSD git weekly for 2025-09-01 to 2025-09-07

On 2025-09-10, Dmitry Salychev wrote:
> 
> I wonder whether specific keywords can be added to the commit
> messages to suggest a category/simplify classification.

Ah, I answered the earlier questions, but missed this one.

I don't think it's necessary to add anything to commit messages.
Most commit messages begin with a
    prefix: blah blah blah
and those "prefixes" are very useful.

If I was going to make any requests about commit messages -- which I
wouldn't -- then I'd ask for more of them to have those prefixes.

For example, in the 2025-09-01 week, 7 commits (4.1%) did not have a
prefix.  Of those,

- 2 had something similar to "prefix:" but the exact formatting was a
  bit off; I can work around that in code.  (added to my todo list)
- 4 didn't have any prefix but the list of modified files was clear
  enough that they were classified based on the filenames (ignoring
  the commit message entirely).
- 1 required manual attention because neither the commit message nor
  list of files was clear.  Thanks, cperciva!  Admittedly 8b4e4c273 was
  easy to classify manually, but I would have written one of:
      release: Update main to 16
      internal: Update main to 16
      branches: Update main to 16

Cheers,
- Graham