Re: [gentoo-dev] Proper commit messages

2005-08-15 Thread Aron Griffis
Markus Rothe wrote: [Tue Aug 09 2005, 07:36:18AM EDT] Personaly I find it a little bit annoying to write changes twise. One time in Changelog and one time in --commitmsg. How about using the commitmsg for Changelog as default, but if a Changelog entry already exists, then write nothing to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proper commit messages

2005-08-09 Thread Markus Rothe
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: If you're the sort that writes good ChangeLog messages anyway, there's nothing wrong with reusing them as the commit message. If you have a really really good reason for not using a ChangeLog message, or if you haven't yet written a shell alias for reusing ChangeLog

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proper commit messages

2005-08-09 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:36:18 + Markus Rothe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personaly I find it a little bit annoying to write changes twise. One time in Changelog and one time in --commitmsg. How about using the commitmsg for Changelog as default, but if a Changelog entry already exists, then

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proper commit messages

2005-08-09 Thread Markus Rothe
Stephen Bennett wrote: On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:36:18 + Markus Rothe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personaly I find it a little bit annoying to write changes twise. One time in Changelog and one time in --commitmsg. How about using the commitmsg for Changelog as default, but if a Changelog

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proper commit messages

2005-08-09 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 13:55, Simon Stelling wrote: #!/bin/bash echangelog ${1} repoman scan repoman commit -m ${1} Even simpler, as repoman commit abort in case of errors in repoman scan: ecommit() { echangelog $@ repoman commit -m $@ } add that to your .bashrc. I use

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proper commit messages

2005-08-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 12:23:20 + Markus Rothe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Stephen Bennett wrote: | On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:36:18 + | Markus Rothe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Personaly I find it a little bit annoying to write changes twise. | One time in Changelog and one time in

[gentoo-dev] Proper commit messages

2005-08-08 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
Well, you'd think that doing main tree CVS commit messages would be something that everyone could do properly without being told, but sadly this doesn't seem to be the case. S... Believe it or not, commit messages are not just something that you type in to keep a computer happy. These