From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Commit netiquette. Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:17:49 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87eikjzaug.fsf@telefonica.net> Reply-To: ams@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1266567534 1454 80.91.229.12 (19 Feb 2010 08:18:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:18:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 19 09:18:49 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NiO4U-0007FA-9o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:18:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37080 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NiO4T-0001qn-O8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:18:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NiO3c-0001L0-9S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:17:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34291 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NiO3b-0001KE-LG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:17:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NiO3a-0000Mz-K3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:17:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:48981) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NiO3Z-0000Mt-UN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:17:50 -0500 Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NiO3Z-0005JY-LO; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:17:49 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Juanma Barranquero on Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:12:47 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:121219 Archived-At: > This seems more of a short comming in `bzr log --short' than in > the way one writes commit messages.  A commit message is more > than a single line.  And the purpose of a change is always more > suitable in the actual code as a comment. You're conflating quite different things. If I update my tree with "bzr up", obviously I'm not going to go looking at the code to know which changes were made, but I certainly will do "bzr log --line -l10" to see recent changes and their purpose. That is the whole idea of a ChangeLog, a short message doesn't substitute it.