Re: [TSVN] Re: Please suggest button name

James Chaldecott wrote:

> Yes. What's the point of including the filenames in the log message? The
> filenames are already attached to the commit. That information should be
> easily discoverable when viewing histories (and if it's not, that's what
> needs fixing).

It's not meant to just include the filenames in the log message.
When you commit a change, you usually made that change not only in one
file but in several files. So the log message then could read something
like this:

Fixed bug #xxxx: description of bug here.

file1: return NULL if the function fails, not an uninitialized value
file2: add NULLpointer checks to catch a failed function call
file3: removed the mentioning of the bug workaround from the docs.

That's why people want to have the list of changed files in the log
message: so they can write such log messages more easily.

> If you want to use different log messages for different files, doesn't
> that imply that you've got more than one atomic set of changes to commit?

Not necessarily. See my example above.

> It sounds like it's encouraging dubious practice to me, but I know that
> there are ppl here who are using SVN for something other than strict
> software version control and would like to be more liberal.

I know that most people don't care about log messages a lot. Sometimes I
think that if certain people would work in my company I'd have to slap
them all the time ;)

Stefan

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Received on Thu Aug 5 21:07:13 2004