On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:20:36AM +0100, Koen Kooi wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 29-10-10 11:02, Paul Menzel wrote: > > Dear OE folks, > > > > > > could you please discuss the following proposal. > > > > I would very much like more elaborate commit messages. This is in my > > opinion already demanded by the commit policy [1], but often patch > > submitters, especially those not sending changes to review to the list, > > since they have direct access to the repository, fail to adhere to the > > policy. > > > > The reason is, quite often I do not understand why a change was > > necessary. It would very much help me, if at least the error message was > > pasted to be able to compare with one???s own error messages and what > > distribution and machine was used to test the recipe. > > We discussed this at OEDEM and AIUI the TSC will make a recommendation > about it later, but in the meantime you can expand existing commit > messages with git notes:
While git-notes is relatively new (1.6.6+), it's a very useful feature. Some more details here: http://progit.org/2010/08/25/notes.html -- Denys > > - ----------------- > GIT-NOTES(1) > > NAME > git-notes - Add/inspect commit notes > > SYNOPSIS > git notes (edit [-F <file> | -m <msg>] | show) [commit] > > DESCRIPTION > This command allows you to add notes to commit messages, without > changing the commit. To discern these notes from the message stored in > the commit object, the notes > are indented like the message, after an unindented line saying > "Notes:". > > To disable commit notes, you have to set the config variable > core.notesRef to the empty string. Alternatively, you can set it to a > different ref, something like > "refs/notes/bugzilla". This setting can be overridden by the > environment variable "GIT_NOTES_REF". > > SUBCOMMANDS > edit > Edit the notes for a given commit (defaults to HEAD). > > show > Show the notes for a given commit (defaults to HEAD). > > OPTIONS > -m <msg> > Use the given note message (instead of prompting). If > multiple -m (or -F) options are given, their values are concatenated as > separate paragraphs. > > -F <file> > Take the note message from the given file. Use - to read the > note message from the standard input. If multiple -F (or -m) options are > given, their values are > concatenated as separate paragraphs. > - ----------------- > > It would of course be better to get it right the first time :) > > regards, > > Koen > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) > > iD8DBQFMzUL0MkyGM64RGpERAlfMAJsGBzO3oZ68BEvCK0QehPsvbnB4hQCgpp4d > sj+pB/5JTY1O7NJtuyMvsyU= > =DiG8 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
