Re: ChangeLog and commit messages

[Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>]

Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru> writes:

> Hmm, it seems it's an SVN workflow, because in git or Mercurial you can't lock
> file. I didn't have experience of working with SVN (fortunately, from what I can
> tell), but I think if I had to work with it I would use `git-svn`.

Most VCS have an option to perform locked check-outs of a file.  Git and
Mercurial are exceptions.

> Anyway, I kind of wanted to see a commit you have troubles adding a title for.
> Judging by your first message here it's the same situation with commits to
> Emacs, so you can drop some commit hash for example. I kind of can speculate
> based on the general description of this SVN workflow, but it may be more
> productive to look at specific cases where such problem arises.

If you search for ``Update Android port'' in the feature/android branch,
you will see what I mean.