On 17.03.2010, at 09:28, Pieter de Bie wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Uli Kusterer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 17.03.2010, at 04:29, Stephen Bannasch wrote:
>>> I often put small bits of code in commit messages.
>> 
>>  I'm wondering if you are putting documentation in your commit messages here?
> 
> I don't think it's GitX's task to tell people how they should document
> their project. Using blame as a documentation tool generally works
> great for me, as you can easily get all relevant commit messages for a
> specific range of code.
> 
> Telling people to use the first line in the commit message as a
> subject is one thing, telling them to separate documentation from
> commit messages is something else.

 Agreed, we should not tell anyone what to do. However, spending extra work on 
a feature that is used in 1 out of several thousand commit messages, and that 
no other VCS client I've used has, sounds a bit like we're losing sight of the 
80/20 rule.

 A monospaced font with the ability to resize the window lets people edit/view 
ASCII art as needed, even if the field soft-wraps to its width.

 But I don't think I should discuss this to death, so I'll shut up now. Whoever 
implements it in the end gets to make the decision. I can always change it in 
my fork if whatever solution you find causes me problems :-)

Cheers,
-- Uli Kusterer
"The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mac-gui-dev/

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