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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: A commit message template?Re: A commit message template?
From: Jens Arnold <jens_at_jens-arnold.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 23:03:28 +0200 >> complaining about commit messages except extremely trivial commits, so >> really all this would do is slow down actual development and make >> committing either more controversial (in that not doing it right could >> potentially blow up every time) or more annoying. > > I disagree. > > First, yes it will slow down the actual commit with a few seconds or > minutes for the single individual that does that work. I'm all for setting some basic guidelines for what a commit message should contain, but I don't like the idea of a strict template. This is mostly for technical reasons though. I started hacking rockbox using cygwin, and cygwin svn doesn't set an editor, probably because the default cygwin installation doesn't contain one. So I became used to using the -m option for the commit message, and that makes it very difficult to do line breaks. When switching to a linux VM later, I kept this habit, mainly because I can't find a cui editor that doesn't annoy me. I also think that pre-wrapping is worse than just letting the viewer tool do it. Sometimes it's useful to have separate paragraphs though. Just my € 0.02 Jens Received on 2010-09-18 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |