From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: VC mode and git Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2015 05:46:37 +0300 Message-ID: <83iodfqmb6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <551A3F17.6020903@math.ntnu.no> <20150331085055.GA2871@acm.fritz.box> <87zj6tiko1.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20150331104935.GB2871@acm.fritz.box> <87y4mdi7tj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20150331214347.GH2871@acm.fritz.box> <87iodgiqr8.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20150401123241.GB2633@acm.fritz.box> <87619feig9.fsf@mango.localdomain> <20150401223432.GE2633@acm.fritz.box> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427942830 30558 80.91.229.3 (2 Apr 2015 02:47:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 02:47:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rekado@elephly.net, stephen@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 02 04:47:00 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YdV9i-0004rn-7O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2015 04:46:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55744 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdV9h-0002bM-Ca for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 22:46:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49410) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdV9d-0002bH-VS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 22:46:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdV9a-0007aX-N8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 22:46:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:50300) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdV9a-0007aO-Eq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2015 22:46:46 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NM500500R8VH600@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2015 05:46:44 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NM50059XRPWFF30@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Thu, 02 Apr 2015 05:46:44 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <20150401223432.GE2633@acm.fritz.box> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:184768 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 22:34:32 +0000 > From: Alan Mackenzie > Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Is having to invent a meaningful commit message for each and every commit > not inconvenient? Not if your commits follow some logical steps of the development. Then a short log message like "Introduced feature A" or "Fixed B that was caused by C" are actually quite natural, and tell the story of your development steps. > I honestly don't understand why people advocate frequent committing. Frequent commits allow you to record the development phases, and allow later to easily find when some code was introduced and why.