--- On Tue, 8/30/11, Tor Lillqvist <t...@iki.fi> wrote: ... >> (I don't know who wrote this ... ) >> I'd like to see commit log/messages containing the >> number of fixed issue referenced and no commit >> messages without that number. > > So people would not be allowed to improve things without > first filing issues? Isn't that the kind of bureucracy
"like to see" doesn't involve any type of imposition. > > Also, having an issue number in the commit message is not > really that helpful, if the commit message is a short > one-liner, the bug report doesn't describe what the > changed/added/fixed code actually does either, and > no useful comments are added. > I think the motivation is that modern bug management tools integrate very well with the VCS. These are just rules of thumb though .. committers are responsible for keeping commit messages useful for community (and their own) benefit. Pedro.
