PATCH: java/contrib.html

[Joseph S. Myers]

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