Re: Descriptive commit messages

From: Mike Kienenberger (mkienen..mail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 10 2006 - 10:36:10 EDT

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    No, Kevin, this has been bothering me as well, and I was going to ask
    the same thing.

    For the other projects I work on, we generally use this format:

    JIRA-### -- Jira Subject
    [optional Thanks to John Smith for this patch]

    On 10/10/06, Kevin Menard <kmenar..ervprise.com> wrote:
    > Sorry to be a pain in the neck about this, but could we please use more
    > descriptive commit messages? I do try to read the commit emails, but
    > since the vast majority of comments are "CAY-XYZ", I can't really tell
    > what's going on unless I then look it up in JIRA. Even including just
    > the JIRA issue subject would be a big help. Something that actually
    > describes the changeset would be even better. For example:
    >
    > "Added new implementation of blah to make blah2 even easier (CAY-XYZ)."
    >
    > I know I made the request in the past, so if I'm the only one this
    > bothers, then I'll drop the issue.
    >
    > Thanks,
    > Kevin
    >
    > --
    > Kevin Menard
    > Servprise International, Inc.
    > "Remote reboot without pulling the plug" -- http://www.servprise.com
    >
    >



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