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Re: Revision log entry - making them mandatory

From: Dave Lawrence <dlawrence_at_ad-holdings.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:29:17 +0000

Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen wrote:
> What I meant by my remark was stereotyping, not that 9-5 programmers
> does any less quality code than anyone else.
>
> But, the truth remains, you trust your programmers enough to check in
> their code without having a tool that analyses their code for quality,
> so the best you should strive for is to avoid forgetting to type in a
> commit log message. If you need to provide any kind of rules to what a
> good log message is, provide a template. Trying to detect a programmer
> comitting "aaaaaaaaaa" could probably easily be done, but what makes
> "aaaaaaaaa" any worse than "Ha ha, I'm not going to enter a log message".

Yes but you could *forget* to enter a log message. This includes the
case of accidentally pressing OK so by rejecting empty messages you also
trap the case where a user clicks OK before they've finished checking
their changes, unticking items or whatever.

Our server also rejects the "automatic" log messages such as "made a copy"

> Trust your developers. If you can't, hire better ones.
>
> On Jan 23, 2008 2:57 PM, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com
> <mailto:tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> awoodjetts wrote:
> > Many thanks to those who have assisted in my (re)direction of
> efforts and
> > searches. I believe that as I want to force the user to do this,
> I therefore
> > need to implement this on the server side not the client side.
> This mean
> > that unless I have missed something, I can't set the tsvn:logminsize
> > property as this requires modifications to each client (I sort of
> hope I am
> > wrong and someone can tell me how to set this property on the
> server).
>
> The tsvn:logminsize is a property you set on your working copy, the
> commit.
> Every user doing an update from the repository will have that setting
> from that time on.
>
> Stefan
>
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