Not worth enforcing, IMHO, but it is nice if you do it. How does this relate to topic branches?
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Michael Brooks <[email protected]>wrote: > One common approach is to prefix each commit message with the category. > > For the Hello World Cordova app, I've been using the following: [app], > [test], and [doc]. > > Examples of the usage are: > $ commit -am "[app] Refactor the JavaScript." > $ commit -am "[test] Add deviceready test case." > $ commit -am "[doc] Update README.md with tagging details." > > The approach can be applied to cordova-js, but for platforms: [android], > [bada], [blackberry], [common], [ios], [webos], [tizen], [wp7], whatever. > $ commit -am "[common] Refactored Geolocation" > $ commit -am "[wp7] Did something Windows Phone specific." > > Michael > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Becky Gibson <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > I often review the checkins in incubator-cordova-js to keep tabs on what > is > > changing. I am selfishly, generally only interested in global or iOS > > related commits. While I know what platforms most committers generally > > work on, it would nice be to be able to tell from the commit comment what > > platform was affected. Thus, I'm asking if people will include the > > platform in the first line of the comment for commits to > > incubator-cordova-js (or at least in one of the comments in a group of > > commits). This would also be helpful in phonegap-plugins. > > > > thanks, > > -becky > > > -- @purplecabbage risingj.com
