On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 08:08:56PM -0400, Anthony wrote:
The quality of my own changeset comments is absolutely irrelevant in
this discussion; let's assume, if it gives you pleasure, that they
are all just "...". That might discredit the messenger, but not
change anything about the message. I think that it is important to
keep the two separate, the message and the messenger.
"minor haiti geometry repair"
"fix source typo"
"fix self-intersecting boundary"
"move lake from one relation to other"
"remove forest self-intersection"
Is that you?
Being a programmer and a daily user of version control systems, I share
Frederik's view that some effort should be made to write good changeset
comments. They can be useful later, say, after several months or years.
Of the above comments, I think that the first one is questionable,
almost as bad as the "fixes" or "adjustments" regularly written by some
long-time contributors. The remaining ones are descriptive, if the
changesets contain just that (e.g., replace source=lndsat with
source=Landsat, fix polygons or multipolygons). Nobody is perfect, at
least not all the time. :-)
Marko
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