From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2STC-0001ja-11 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 11:40:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j79BdRkq028701; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:39:27 GMT Received: from mail.unixforces.net (unixforces.net [217.160.130.73]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j79Bbmsk003802 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:37:49 GMT Received: by mail.unixforces.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 82E0729C074; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:36:18 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:36:18 +0000 From: Markus Rothe To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proper commit messages Message-ID: <20050809113618.GC31594@unixforces.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20050808214450.2bcc6a34@snowdrop.home> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+nBD6E3TurpgldQp" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050808214450.2bcc6a34@snowdrop.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 57a329e1-6786-47eb-b78e-e431bc465b18 X-Archives-Hash: 160fe990bfde26e3ad0081a062e87540 --+nBD6E3TurpgldQp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > If you're the sort that writes good ChangeLog messages anyway, there's > nothing wrong with reusing them as the commit message. If you have a > really really good reason for not using a ChangeLog message, or if you > haven't yet written a shell alias for reusing ChangeLog messages for > commits, you still need to come up with something for the commit > message. Personaly I find it a little bit annoying to write changes twise. One time in Changelog and one time in --commitmsg. How about using the commitmsg for Changelog as default, but if a Changelog entry already exists, then write nothing to Changelog. Regards, Markus Rothe --+nBD6E3TurpgldQp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC+JUyx15fTQSr/HcRAmkVAJ9dhWHnXHfFIPKMz3PSjTPhxBR5ZQCfaMZD 5TRZ6Cf0rUmufn6CxRucpg8= =n1BZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+nBD6E3TurpgldQp-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list