On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 06:07:54AM -0700, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > > The staunch refusal of most VCSes to not allow you to entire an empty > commit is actually a mistake, I think. For example, git commit will > abort the commit if you leave the message blank. For sufficiently > small commits, the VCS should just cook up a message based on the > diff. The 'why' is not always relevant (e.g. if you fix a typo, I > could say "I fixed a typo", but that's obvious from the diff, and I > could also say "typos are -duh- stuff that needs fixing", but that's > obvious).
Oh, I'd agree that a typo fix probably warrants no more than a "typo" message. But most people don't seem to understand that checking in 3,000 lines of diff with nothing more than "fixes customer bug" is not terribly helpful. -Dom --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
