Re: [Evolution-hackers] Request for improved svn commit messages

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

Oh, I remember a thread on d-d-l where there was discussion on two
ChangeLogs (one part of tree and other part of svn logs). Btw, I'm one
of those who use those short logs for svn commits and I know a few
people who copy ChangeLogs to svn commit logs.

In anycase, I really dont know/see what is the benefit of this over the
short messages. Many times with patches and review being on bugzilla,
atleast I find easy to see what broke where with just the bug number
part of commit logs over viewcvs.

-Srini.

On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 09:47 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'd like to suggest to Evolution hackers, whenever it is possible for
> them, to try to improve their svn commit messages.
> 
> Some of you are currently using a very short commit message
> (something like "fix for bug#xxx), which make reading svn commit
> extremely difficult without having to go each time on bugzilla to see
> what was the fix really for. Moreover, it also adds complexity when you
> are checking a file history and bump into such commits.
> 
> May I suggest you use either the same ChangeLog entry you wrote in the
> various changelog file (so it is even faster, just use copy/paste :) or
> even a stripped version of it (it used to be extremely useful for CVS to
> see which files were changed at the same time, but it is no longer
> required with svn atomic commit) ?
> 
> Thanks you in advance.