Re: CHANGES.txt, process improvement solicitation

2024-05-17 Thread Chris Hostetter
: The thing about commit messages is they can't easily be cleaned up after : they are pushed... mistakes there are permanent. Exactly. In particular, a feature might be collaboratively developed & committed by Alice & Bob; but then before it's ever released Carl might find a bug with the

Re: CHANGES.txt, process improvement solicitation

2024-05-17 Thread Gus Heck
The thing about commit messages is they can't easily be cleaned up after they are pushed... mistakes there are permanent. On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 9:47 AM Alessandro Benedetti wrote: > I feel the same. > It's error-prone, easy to forget and even easier to end up with conflicts. > > Sure, once

Re: CHANGES.txt, process improvement solicitation

2024-05-17 Thread Alessandro Benedetti
I feel the same. It's error-prone, easy to forget and even easier to end up with conflicts. Sure, once there, it's useful and I end up reading it from time to time, to quickly refresh on the latest contributions I (or my team) did (but the git log is more than enough for that). In the end,

Re: CHANGES.txt, process improvement solicitation

2024-05-16 Thread Eric Pugh
I *do* find our current situation the worst of all possible options! > On May 16, 2024, at 2:51 PM, David Smiley wrote: > > Managing CHANGES.txt in each PR/change we do is a pain. It's so > merge-conflict prone. I don't mean to call for the removal of > CHANGES.txt (although I've wished for

CHANGES.txt, process improvement solicitation

2024-05-16 Thread David Smiley
Managing CHANGES.txt in each PR/change we do is a pain. It's so merge-conflict prone. I don't mean to call for the removal of CHANGES.txt (although I've wished for this off-and-on), but want to solicit inputs on what can be done to make this easier. I could be mistaken but maybe it was Calvin