From 827153a16f4af7ac291be81a7204cfb06eca38ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Swanson Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2019 11:47:53 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] README: remove last two paragraphs These are complicated and nobody follows them. --- README.adoc | 14 -------------- 1 file changed, 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc index e23578a3..5983f3c4 100644 --- a/README.adoc +++ b/README.adoc @@ -254,17 +254,3 @@ version control systems, adopted by projects such as Linux and Git. For an explanation of this style, see https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/[How to Write a Git Commit Message]. - -The commit `2017-02-20T01:52:35Z!mikeonthecomputer@gmail.com` is a -good example of a properly-written commit. - -Do not use commit hashes to refer to other commits. Use other kinds -of pointers, simple ones like “my previous commit” might suffice, or -use http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=3872[action stamps], which can improve -the meaningfulness of commit identifiers if the repository history is -rewritten (this has happened at least twice!), or if the repository is -converted to another VCS (this happened once before). At the time of -writing (February 2017), core Git does not yet have a mechanism to -output this format, but you may use a -https://gist.github.com/chungy/195f53bfb9253584e596[shell script] and -place it in your `$PATH` to achieve some ease in generating them.