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Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages
- From: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1 at t-online dot de>
- To: Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google dot com>
- Cc: Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149 dot net>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Daniel Berlin <dannyb at google dot com>
- Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:46:16 +0100
- Subject: Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages
- References: <2007-12-02-11-05-39+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net> <47543DE8.3010003@google.com>
Diego Novillo wrote:
> The history is something one finds on the mailing lists. So, my
> proposal is to add a commit-time check that makes sure that the commit
> message contains a URL to the message describing the change. IIUC, such
> check shouldn't be hard to implement (Dan?)
I'd much prefer the text from the mail message be repeated in the commit
log. Removes one step of indirection both when writing and reading the log.
Of course, that way it's not something that can easily be enforced
automatically.
Bernd
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