On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am surprised that it requires explanation. Can you imagine the
> usefulness of http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changesets without
> descriptions?
Nobody is arguing that detailed commit messages are a bad idea, but
that undescriptive brief commit messages that tell you nothing that
were obviously put in for no other reason than JOSM whining about a
commit message being required (while it's *not* required by the
protocol) are worse than nothing:
I'd rather have no "commit=" key on commit messages than "commit=some
edits", "commit=update", "commit=fuck you" or "commit=asdf". People
are *always* going to produce commit messages with no useful
information whether commit messages are obligatory or not, and as
someone who reads changelogs I'd rather have nothing (no commit
mesage) than something that's worse than nothing ("asdf").
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