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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proper commit messages

2005-08-09 Thread Tuan Van
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 15:07:16 -0400 Jonathan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | i do have one suggestion for every dev who's ever gotten minor syntax | - trailing whitespace errors (somehow that happens to me ALOT)... Or use vim, and :set list listchars=tab:»·,trail:·,exten

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proper commit messages

2005-08-09 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 20:22 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Or use vim, and :set list listchars=tab:»·,trail:·,extends:… , and then > you'll be able to see them visibly. Or use a proper editor and do the following ;) (global-font-lock-mode t) (setq-default show-trailing-whitespace t) Regards,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proper commit messages

2005-08-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 15:07:16 -0400 Jonathan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | i do have one suggestion for every dev who's ever gotten minor syntax | - trailing whitespace errors (somehow that happens to me ALOT)... Or use vim, and :set list listchars=tab:»·,trail:·,extends:… , and then you'll be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proper commit messages

2005-08-09 Thread Jonathan Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Isn't this one of those things that's best done on a per-dev basis? > It's so trivial there's no point shipping an app that does it -- > reading the associated documentation would take longer than writing > your own. Plus that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proper commit messages

2005-08-09 Thread Markus Rothe
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Isn't this one of those things that's best done on a per-dev basis? > It's so trivial there's no point shipping an app that does it -- > reading the associated documentation would take longer than writing > your own. Plus that way you can incorporate personalised clever thi

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

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 .bashr

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 C

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proper commit messages

2005-08-09 Thread Simon Stelling
Markus Rothe 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 write nothing to Changelog. #!/bin/bash echangelog "${1}

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, th

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 m

[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 messages