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Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > >>Bruce, people would appreciate it if you made some effort to ensure > >>that commit messages describe the main purposes of the patch, rather > >>than being just the verbatim text of the last message in the thread. > >>The above log message is not merely overly verbose, but completely > >>useless. One might guess that the change had something to do with > >>Kerberos, but what? > >> > >> > > > >First I am hearing a complaint. I will try to clean them up. > > > > > > > > Well, not everyone is as assertive as Tom :-) > > One other thing: it's important that the first words in your commit > mesage summarise the contents of the commit, because that's what gets > put in the subject line of the committers email message. Recent examples > can be seen here: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2006-03/index.php > > I don't read every committers message, and the subject lines can help me > filter them intelligently. > > cheers > > andrew > -- Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us SRA OSS, Inc. http://www.sraoss.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
