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Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages
On Dec 5, 2007 6:15 PM, Ben Elliston <bje@au1.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 09:18 -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
>
> > First, continuing to have good quality messages. Right now at the
> > very least you get a (semi-) accurate record of what was touched.
> > I've seen plenty of ChangeLog-less projects out there than end up with
> > commits like "fixed a bug", or even worse.
>
> Something else that hasn't been raised is that ChangeLogs can be
> revised. We often see people making mistakes with their ChangeLog
> entries, but since the ChangeLog is versioned, they can revise it. If
> you screw up a commit message, it's much harder to fix it (and a purist
> might argue that to do so would be destroying revision history).
Uh?
svn propedit --revision <rev number> svn:log
Hope this helps!