From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Log messages in CVS
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:33:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvir2darin.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874pe13ywf.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:43:28 +0900")
>>> Ok, I've read the thread and that Richard agreed with the rules. But on
>>> the other hand others like Miles disagreed. Is the only purpose of
>>> those single file commits really to keep the CVS logs clean?
>>
>> I'll let Richard reply to this question, as well as to disagreements
>> by Miles and others. Unlike some others, I don't care much about
>> whether files should or should not be committed one by one, as long as
>> whatever practice we adopt is adhered to by everybody.
> I will not make single file commits, in general.
I usually do single-file commits but I also will not in general refrain
from multi-file commits. I see no benefit in ruling them out just for
the sake of "simplicity" or some other such principle. Let's worry
about consistency where it matters, but only there.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-02 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-29 10:56 Log messages in CVS Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-29 13:12 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-12-29 14:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-29 19:45 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-12-29 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-29 22:43 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-02 2:33 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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