On 09/08/2016 03:09 PM, Waldek Hebisch wrote: > Commit messages are essentialy titles of changes. They are > used to produce various "tables of content". To work well > for this purpose they should be short, preferably below > 50 characters.
Wrong. Read the links that I have sent and learn that with git log --oneline one gets exactly those 50-character subject lines, but still can have more information stored in the commit message. Additionally, with today's tools I find the ChangeLog file somewhat redundant. For example. git log -3 --oneline 631fa1ac41aaae361610c85d4a6e47b69cf97de6 631fa1a fix aldor compilation 1d8cf06 Eliminate use of sets in lodof2 eb8d7fe Generalize nonassociative rings but git log -3 631fa1ac41aaae361610c85d4a6e47b69cf97de6 commit 631fa1ac41aaae361610c85d4a6e47b69cf97de6 Author: Ralf Hemmecke <[email protected]> Date: Tue Sep 15 19:27:03 2015 +0000 fix aldor compilation After generalization of the coefficient domain of polynomials from Ring to Join(SemiRng, AbelianMonoid) (r1933 "Generalize polynomials to semirings", 2015-08-21 02:41:11), also the initlist must be generalized. git-svn-id: https://fricas.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fricas/trunk@1946 b0c55286-4f34-0410-a049-a1e7e93b0762 commit 1d8cf06fa717f3924736d89bbaa094a5228cc589 Author: Waldek Hebisch <[email protected]> Date: Mon Sep 14 22:39:53 2015 +0000 Eliminate use of sets in lodof2 git-svn-id: https://fricas.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fricas/trunk@1945 b0c55286-4f34-0410-a049-a1e7e93b0762 commit eb8d7fe9e23258df0d123285b490781cc40b11e9 Author: Waldek Hebisch <[email protected]> Date: Fri Sep 11 17:48:56 2015 +0000 Generalize nonassociative rings git-svn-id: https://fricas.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fricas/trunk@1944 b0c55286-4f34-0410-a049-a1e7e93b0762 It's all a matter of how much one developer wants to communicate to his/her fellow followers/collaborators. Where else (if not in the commit message) would you write about the WHY of the commit? Ralf -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
