On 07/17/2014 04:35 PM, Barry Wardell wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Frank Loeffler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We could provide one. We cannot enforce people installing it. >> >>> and on top of that set up the server to reject unformatted messages? >> >> That is probably the better option. Although I would only see it as help >> to "not forget about it", not an enforcement really (although >> technically it is the same). We cannot disallow anything else than thorn >> names before the ":" (we might have commit touching multiple thorns), so >> we cannot technically prevent something like "somewhere: changed >> something". But we don't need to technically enforce everything anyway. > > > This is a good point. While it seems like a good general guideline to have > the thorn name as a prefix in any commit message, I'm not convinced it is a > good idea to strictly enforce it. For example, what about commits that > modify several thorns at once? >
Then we could prefix with "Arrangement:". In any case I don't have strong feelings about it. It was just a suggestion to make the commit messages neater and motivate people to apply localized, atomic commits instead. Cheers, Bruno. > Carpet has a policy like this; in general commit messages are prefixed by > the thorn name, but occasionally there will be a message which changes many > thorns at once and doesn't adhere to this convention. > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.einsteintoolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/users
