On 22/04/2009 14:44, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> 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").
If you can commit without a comment, then we will get accidentally blank comments (I find myself doing this with svn sometimes - I press the button and then realise I didn't give a reason). I'd rather be saved from my own mistake than pander to the un-cooperativeness of a few people in helping others in what is supposed to be a co-operative project. I say leave it as it is. David _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev