Please, do not use the merged revisions log as the commit message when merging

[Daniel Berlin]

Feel free to edit the hook scripts to do this.


On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
>
>> Well, that is a property change and it is surprising that the log
>> shows the diff of the change. Normally logs only show what has been
>> changed but not the diff. Neither John, nor I expected this behaviour.
>
> Changes to *revision* properties deliberately show the diff because
> revision properties are not versioned so sending the diff to gcc-cvs
> provides the only audit trail for such changes in case mistakes are made.
> However, this case illustrates that such diffs should only go to gcc-cvs
> and not be used to extract PR numbers for gcc-bugzilla.
>
> --
> Joseph S. Myers
> joseph@codesourcery.com