> On Dec 21, 2015, at 2:53 PM, Amir Michail via swift-evolution 
> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Dec 21, 2015, at 5:38 PM, Douglas Gregor <dgre...@apple.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Dec 21, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Amir Michail via swift-evolution 
>>> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Upon a commit, these comments would be automatically removed from the 
>>> source and combined into a single commit comment.
>>> 
>>> In this way, you would not need to remember what changes you are committing 
>>> in order to make up a commit comment. You just comment the code as you make 
>>> the changes.
>>> 
>>> A special syntax would be used for commit comments so they are never 
>>> confused with normal comments.
>>> 
>>> Note also that in the case of multiple changes being committed at once, 
>>> these commit comments would give a more accurate mapping of the individual 
>>> comments to the code changes they refer to.
>> 
>> This has nothing to do with Swift.
> 
> Aren’t comments part of Swift?

Comments are, but commits are not. We don't have any way to force source 
control systems like git or svn to scan our files for special comments.


-- 
Greg Parker     gpar...@apple.com     Runtime Wrangler


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