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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:306973 Archived-At: Konstantin Kharlamov writes: > Ideally, each commit in the repository should contain minimal functional > changes. It allows for easier code review at the moment and for better fi= guring > out why some change was done later in the life of the project. Usually at= this > point I refer people to this old article from kernel HID subsystem mainta= iner > and libinput creator http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-commit-messages= .html > Old =E2=80=94 but gold! =F0=9F=98=84 That's the purpose of ChangeLog, not the VCS. > When project contributions are done via mailing list (such as kernel, gdb= , gcc, > and in the past were also Xorg and Mesa), you usually turn a number of co= mmits > to separate patches and send them. E.g. here's one example: > https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20230612104658.1386996-1-tvrtko.ursulin= @linux.intel.com/ > it starts with a "zero patch" that is the title of the series, and then > individual patches follow. Mesa and Linux are hardly all the world, and that wasn't my experience with GDB or GCC development.