RE: [csms-dev] Messages on CVS commits

[Mike L. <mi...@fa...>]

Okay, unserstood - I was adding the comment on the first of each
'experimental' change, but not on the subsequent ones - they would all have
read the same anyway, but I guess something written is better than nothing.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: csm...@li...
> [mailto:csm...@li...]On Behalf Of Ross
> Gardler
> Sent: 24 November 2002 19:22
> To: csm...@li...
> Subject: [csms-dev] Messages on CVS commits
>
>
> When committing changes to CVS it is important that a message is
> attached to the commit. There are three reasons for this:
>
> 1) It makes reading of the CVS mails much easier for the rest of us
>
> 2) The messages are archived and a meaningful message means we can
> quickly search the archives to find out what someone did to make XYZ
> happen - I know I can't remember all the solutions I implement
>
> 3) Soon (ish) I will be implementing a system that extracts the messages
> and created an automated change log for new releases
>
> It may seem obvious when committing the files what the change is, but
> that's because you made the change and you are reading the file. It's
> not obvious to the rest of us and even less obvious to the mail archive
> search engine.
>
> There should never be the need to commit experimental changes to CVS so
> there should always be a meaningful message (for example, "Changed XYZ
> to ABC as a fix for Bug #"). However, at the moment players.xml needs to
> be changed experimentally some times (not a good use of CVS but this
> will change soon). In this instance I suggest a message such as "Attempt
> to fix bug #" is used. Your CVS client should allow you to repeat the
> message you used for the last commit so this shouldn't be too much of a
> bind.
>
> Ross
>
>
>
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