[gnuastro-devel] Updates in coding and commit conventions

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

Hi,

Two commits were just pushed to master which can be summarized as below:

1. The line-widths of all hand-written text in Gnuastro (source code, 
documentation, and commit messages) was set to 75 (instead of 70 before) 
and the .dir-locals.el file was updated. The reasoning is explained in 
the commit message and also throughout the book text.

2. A convention is suggested for the commit message titles: that they 
start with a short category before the actual title. This is done to 
more easily go through the commit logs. Note that not all changes can be 
classified by files (so Git can automatically separate the commits we 
want), for example a change in the book can easily be about any of the 
utilities, libraries, development, installation and so on.

As explained in the manual, especially at this stage, none of these 
conventions are carved in stone (unchangable), so please share your 
thoughts on them in this list. We will tentatively follow these 
conventions and if there is no comments, they can be more strongly 
accepted, other wise, we will update them. But until then please follow 
them and share your experience if you feel they should be changed.

Cheers,

Mohammad