From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26503 invoked by alias); 3 Dec 2007 17:47:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 26494 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Dec 2007 17:47:08 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mailout09.sul.t-online.de (HELO mailout09.sul.t-online.com) (194.25.134.84) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:46:57 +0000 Received: from fwd34.aul.t-online.de by mailout09.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 1IzFNZ-0002HV-04; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:46:49 +0100 Received: from [84.152.228.191] (Xp78bQZVohzTtN93ce+7wizyIz9WZuBLu9WEMKQiUtH4Ze9-HjQi7rRBbyI3nBkQh2@[84.152.228.191]) by fwd34.aul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1IzFN6-1oc4o40; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 18:46:20 +0100 Message-ID: <475440E8.4000109@t-online.de> Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:47:00 -0000 From: Bernd Schmidt User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071116) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Diego Novillo CC: Samuel Tardieu , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Daniel Berlin Subject: Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages References: <2007-12-02-11-05-39+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net> <47543DE8.3010003@google.com> In-Reply-To: <47543DE8.3010003@google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ID: Xp78bQZVohzTtN93ce+7wizyIz9WZuBLu9WEMKQiUtH4Ze9-HjQi7rRBbyI3nBkQh2 X-TOI-MSGID: 68141be7-4d99-4102-a899-8401f50542d8 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2007-12/txt/msg00082.txt.bz2 Diego Novillo wrote: > The history is something one finds on the mailing lists. So, my > proposal is to add a commit-time check that makes sure that the commit > message contains a URL to the message describing the change. IIUC, such > check shouldn't be hard to implement (Dan?) I'd much prefer the text from the mail message be repeated in the commit log. Removes one step of indirection both when writing and reading the log. Of course, that way it's not something that can easily be enforced automatically. Bernd -- This footer brought to you by insane German lawmakers. Analog Devices GmbH Wilhelm-Wagenfeld-Str. 6 80807 Muenchen Sitz der Gesellschaft Muenchen, Registergericht Muenchen HRB 40368 Geschaeftsfuehrer Thomas Wessel, William A. Martin, Margaret Seif