On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:57:46PM -0400, Justin Lebar wrote: > > It bothers me that we're cluttering up our commit messages with > > ephemeral data unrelated to the actual change. DONTBUILD and CLOSED > > TREE are the worst offenders. > > What if we asked people to put DONTBUILD / CLOSED TREE in a new line > at the bottom of their commit message? Most of the time we look at > only the first line of the commit message, so it seems to me this > would eliminate most of the aesthetic offense, without requiring us to > develop entirely new tools for interacting with our SCM. > > This would have the added benefit of teaching people that they can > write multiline commit messages, which is something I hope we can all > agree on. :)
That still leave the clutter forever in the mercurial log. I wonder if it would be possible to push special branches or bookmarks for DONTBUILD and CLOSED TREE, with a server side hook to handle things nicely. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
