Re: [boinc_dev] could the git comment be more descriptive or better empty ?

2013-05-29 Thread Toralf Förster
On 05/29/2013 01:08 AM, Charlie Fenton wrote: I agree with Jord that 'quick updates', or 'quick fixes' is not helpful, but I also don't want to see empty commit messages. I feel that _every_ commit should have a commit message briefly describing what was changed and why. Yeah - I was just

Re: [boinc_dev] could the git comment be more descriptive or better empty ?

2013-05-29 Thread Steffen Möller
Hi Toralf, Yeah - I was just grumbling about a commit with the only message Include cmath instead of math.h various places nothing else - and of course gitk shows for a dozen of files such a change. Every ?!%%$$ user can see the diff using gitk - so important IMO is just a short

[boinc_dev] could the git comment be more descriptive or better empty ?

2013-05-28 Thread Toralf Förster
It would be sometimes helpful for 3rd party testers/reviewers/people_which_are_just_interested if the git comments would be more descriptive or completely empty to not waste space, especially comments shouldn't tell what was changed but why a change was made, or ? -- MfG/Sincerely Toralf

Re: [boinc_dev] could the git comment be more descriptive or better empty ?

2013-05-28 Thread David Anderson
Please give examples of non-descriptive comments. -- David On 28-May-2013 1:56 PM, Toralf Förster wrote: It would be sometimes helpful for 3rd party testers/reviewers/people_which_are_just_interested if the git comments would be more descriptive or completely empty to not waste space,

Re: [boinc_dev] could the git comment be more descriptive or better empty ?

2013-05-28 Thread Jorden van der Elst
I'd rather that there'd be a more uniform use the prefixes. That everyone use the same prefix, so that those of us keeping change logs can see a bit easier what goes where. Now there's a couple of entries that say client, but are android. Or some entries that have no prefix whatsoever, and only by