[FFmpeg-devel] Patchwork hook for bad commit messages

[Andreas Rheinhardt]

Nicolas George:
> Michael Niedermayer (12021-08-15):
>> We could also add a fate test that checks the commit messages between
>> master (if == HEAD) and origin
>> iam not sure if people want this but it could eliminate some bad messages
>> before even reaching the mailing list (if the developer did run make fate)
> 
> I am not sure what you are suggesting. Does patchowk not already check
> that the patch applies cleanly to HEAD?
> 
He wants that commit messages are checked locally by running fate,
before they even reach the mailing list (presuming that the developer
runs fate).
(I expect the intersection of the set of persons not running fate and
the set of persons sending bad commit messages to be large.)

- Andreas