On 15 September 2010 14:28, Paul Louden <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/14/2010 11:23 PM, Jonathan Gordon wrote: >> >> If anything that argument is one *for* the short "fix red", "bugger" >> commit messages NOT AGAINST THEM. >> When skimming the commit logs you know immediately to go straight past >> any of those messages. >> >> Besides, if you are searching for possible breaks and using the commit >> message as your first filter is incredibly dangerous. > > Who said anything about "searching for breaks?" > > The whole idea of the commit log is to give a brief summary of what was > done. Not necessarily looking for breaks, it can also make is easy to know > which ones are inconsequential. But "Bugger" doesn't say "this is > inconsequential." There's no context in that description to tell if it's > meant to imply that it was inconsequential or if it was just someone being > lazy and not feeling like writing a commit message. >
I think it is incredibly rude to suggest that anyone would do an empty message on an important commit
