Hi, On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 01:05:44PM CEST, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Mon, 7 May 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote: > > > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > > > > > Just another reason to hate CVS. Because it trained people to do that. If > > > it was not for the training by CVS, I would have strongly opposed to the > > > introduction of the "-m" switch to commit. It _encourages_ bad commit > > > messages. > > > > Well, this really depends on the use-case, size of commit, ... > > Okay, so I use "-m" myself sometimes. I'm maybe somewhat standing out of the crowd, but I sometimes use -m for *very* long commit messages - just using separate -m parameters for paragraphs and writing on; I tend to find it much more natural than spawning an editor. Only when I find later that I've made an ugly typo in the middle of 250-characters commandline or I figure out that I should add some figure to the message, I throw in -e at the end and add the final touches. ..snip.. > Commit messages, BTW, are somewhat of an artform. You cannot imagine how > slow I am writing them, because they should be helpful not only for the > reviewer, but also for the casual git-blame user, who wants to find out > the rationale of a change. But I agree that commit messages are somewhat of an artform, and just finding a good headline can be quite difficult sometime. :-) -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ Ever try. Ever fail. No matter. // Try again. Fail again. Fail better. -- Samuel Beckett - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
