> On Dec 21, 2015, at 5:56 PM, Greg Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Dec 21, 2015, at 2:53 PM, Amir Michail via swift-evolution >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >>> On Dec 21, 2015, at 5:38 PM, Douglas Gregor <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On Dec 21, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Amir Michail via swift-evolution >>>> <[email protected]> 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. >
If it is part of the language standard and is supported by Xcode, then many source control systems/IDEs will support it also as it gives them a competitive advantage. > > -- > Greg Parker [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Runtime > Wrangler
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