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Re: Feature request: Auto-logging of merges

From: Scott L. Burson <Scott_at_solidcore.com>
Date: 2004-06-15 00:06:15 CEST

On Mon June 14 2004 02:08 pm, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 15:44, Scott L. Burson wrote:
> > Here's a suggestion that I think would help a lot. Merging could add an
> > annotation to the working copy that receives the merge, giving the two
> > source URLs and revision numbers; this annotation would be automatically
> > added to the log message at the next commit.
>
> "Merge tracking" is a desirable feature, absolutely. The book even
> mentions it. But you've just barely described the tip of the iceberg.
> The system should be tracking this stuff internally and actually
> understanding it, not just appending auto-generated text to log messages
> for humans to read. We'd like to solve the real problem, not just make
> the symptom a bit less painful. :-)

A worthy goal, but while you're working toward it, a bit of auto-generated
text would make things quite a bit less painful. As things stand, this
information can be quite difficult to infer after the fact.

I don't know how hard this auto-logging would be to implement, but if it isn't
hard, I beg you to do it, even if only as an interim measure.

-- Scott

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