From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2609 invoked by alias); 3 Dec 2007 17:58:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 2595 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Dec 2007 17:57:59 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-out.google.com (HELO smtp-out.google.com) (216.239.45.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:57:47 +0000 Received: from zps76.corp.google.com (zps76.corp.google.com [172.25.146.76]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id lB3HvfWs021284; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 09:57:41 -0800 Received: from smtp.corp.google.com (spacemonkey2.corp.google.com [192.168.120.114]) by zps76.corp.google.com with ESMTP id lB3HvZM0007449 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 09:57:35 -0800 Received: from localhost.localdomain.google.com (adsl-76-249-168-94.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net [76.249.168.94]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.corp.google.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lB3HvYvN002238 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 09:57:34 -0800 To: Bernd Schmidt Cc: Diego Novillo , 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> <475440E8.4000109@t-online.de> From: Ian Lance Taylor Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:58:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <475440E8.4000109@t-online.de> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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/msg00085.txt.bz2 Bernd Schmidt writes: > 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. I would find the URL to be very useful, because it links to the discussion. Reasonably often the last e-mail message is something like "Does this version look OK?" Ian