Just to add in, something that gets me is batch commits with a single 
message. It too makes it confusing to figure out what has changed when 
the message contains something totally unrelated to the class.

2c.

-Justin

Adrian Custer wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm starting to read the commit log regularly due to my using mercurial
> more and more often. You can see an example of what I read here: 
>   http://hg.geomatys.fr/geotools/trunk/
> 
> As you can see, the commit messages lack specificity; it's hard to tell
> what they were for since this info appears, if it does, in a different
> place in each message.
> 
> If each of you is willing, perhaps we could all start our commit
> messages with some indication of the overall purpose of the commit or
> the module to which it applies? I imagine something like:
> 
>         Fix demo/introduction: get this working again.
>         Feature work: main/api needed fixes for ...
>         Cleanup the core modules: general cleanup for ..
>         
> leaving everyone free, of course, to decide how to define what they are
> committing.
> 
> cheers,
>   adrian
> 
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