From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Summarizing the purpose of a change.
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:53:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvskc657tb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r5rqbihq.fsf@red-bean.com> (Karl Fogel's message of "Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:02:25 -0600")
> So far, everyone who's chimed in has basically said "Yeah, I try to do
> this". But my question is more about making it policy, in the sense
> that of making it appropriate to follow up to change saying "How about a
> summary line for that?"
We could try it. I think adding such a summary line can be
useful, indeed. We could try to make it more of a convention, indeed.
As somebody else pointed out, many VCS have special support for such
"summary line".
And after all, we already do the same for docstrings.
Let's try it for a while,
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-23 1:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-11-21 7:09 ` Summarizing the purpose of a change Karl Fogel
2009-11-21 8:07 ` Miles Bader
2009-11-21 9:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-21 11:29 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-11-21 12:19 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-21 12:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-22 17:02 ` Karl Fogel
2009-11-23 1:53 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-11-23 2:20 ` Karl Fogel
2009-11-24 15:12 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2009-11-24 15:41 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-11-25 21:02 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-26 20:20 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2009-11-27 6:35 ` Richard Stallman
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