On 11 Jul, 2006, at 07:34, Andi Vajda wrote:

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Jeffrey Harris wrote:

Now that I'm back from my (very refreshing) three week vacation, I'm
reading through hundreds of commit messages instead of the more normal
few at a time, and my experience has prompted me to make a request.

It would be really nice if I didn't have to click on bug URLs over and
over again to figure out what general problem was solved by a commit.

I'd like to ask people to include a sentence about what the bug being
solved is, in addition to including a bug number and a summary of the
solution, when committing.

-1

I'm really against duplicating data, especially one mouse click away.

It's several mouse clicks away if you're using "svn log" and not the commit email. And the number of mouse clicks increases if, say, you're scanning through a bunch of revisions trying to figure out which one could have been responsible for some change. Furthermoreover, as your alter egos Professor Bi-Ref and Dr Index might say, there's nothing wrong with a little redundancy, eh :).

I'd much rather implement a commit script that scans the commit comment and mails whomever doesn't want to follow the link the full comment sequence of the bug report from bugzilla.

This is actually quite easy to do. Let me know if that'd help and if you'd subscribe to such a service.

If you're going to write a script, I think it would be better to have it pass stdin as the svn commit message, get the revision number from the output, and then update the bug (à la Subzilla) with both the comment and the new revision.

--Grant


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