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Re: PATCH: java/contrib.html
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk>
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 19:58:52 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Re: PATCH: java/contrib.html
- References: <Pine.BSF.4.56.0307261726470.1282@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> - <p>The commit message given to cvs should be the ChangeLog entry.
> - If you wrote the entry (your name is at the top), then don't
> - include the header. If someone else wrote the entry, do include
> - the header. It is customary to make the <tt>cvs commit</tt> log
> - message the same as the ChangeLog entry.</p>
I think the convention about when the header is included in the log
messages should go in cvswrite.html.
> - <p>If your change fixes a PR, put the text (e.g.)
> - ``<tt>Fixes PR java/58</tt>'' into the ChangeLog entry and into the
> - cvs commit message. This will cause an automatic message to be
This also ought to be documented (with the current syntax accepted by
log_accum_bugzillafied), in the ChangeLogs section of
codingconventions.html (as it's relevant to people without CVS write
access who are writing ChangeLog entries).
--
Joseph S. Myers
jsm@polyomino.org.uk