Re: Commit log messages: Best practices?

On May 3, 2005, at 8:20 PM, Ben Jackson wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if anyone has any tips for best practices in
> composing commit messages. Should we require that authors note
> their name with commits, or is that a job for svnlook? How specific
> should you be about file paths, adds, removes, etc? I thought about
> something like the following:
>
> svn ci -m "[joeblow] Added project2/ to /svn/projects"
> svn ci -m "[janeblow] Updated menu functionality in /svn/projects/
> project1/menu.js"
> svn ci -m "[johnblow] First version of template complete in /svn/
> projects/project1"

I think it just clutters the commit message with redundant
information. Subversion already records the user that does the
commit and the files that were changed/added/copied, etc.

look at the output of

svn log -v

Scott

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Received on Wed May 4 03:17:27 2005