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From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Subject: eclass committ message verbosity (Was: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] bzr.eclass: Add --overwrite-tags option to pull command.)
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 15:40:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11c10acb-9965-951a-a5e2-56c0189fbbf7@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23161.48517.148291.638434@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>


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On 02/06/2018 03:36 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 6 Feb 2018, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:


>> More generally though, should we start requiring more verbose commit
>> messages for eclasses to make it easier to trace changes in our git
>> repo directly without reaching out to bugs? At least including
>> summaries of the respective bugs as a short description?
> 
> In the concrete example, the bug's summary is "bzr.eclass might need
> to use bzr pull's --overwrite-tags flag" which is not much different
> from the git commit message.

Right, this specific commit likely has little more to gain given the
summary line. But could easily benefit from some text in body still :)

But I generally think we can benefit from some more verbosity in our
commit messages, in particular for eclasses.

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Kristian Fiskerstrand
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-06 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-06 13:57 [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] bzr.eclass: Add --overwrite-tags option to pull command Ulrich Müller
2018-02-06 14:12 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2018-02-06 14:36   ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-02-06 14:40     ` Kristian Fiskerstrand [this message]
2018-02-06 17:07   ` Alec Warner
2018-02-06 20:07     ` Michał Górny
2018-02-06 23:24 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] bzr.eclass: Drop bzr_bootstrap and bzr_src_prepare Ulrich Müller
2018-02-07  7:34   ` Michał Górny
2018-02-07 13:18     ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-02-07 13:26       ` Michał Górny

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