Re: Version control? You're soaking in it!

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 11:32:31AM +0200, Dirk Schenkewitz wrote:
>
> I would say that the commit messages are very helpful, if a change does
> what the developer wants. But if there is an unexpected side effect, they
> of very little help, IMHO.

Well, if you know/suspect that the bug is in module/comonent/subsystem
X, it's easy to scan commit messages for changes affecting X.

> Another thought - are there methods to automatically do a checkin when
> saving an edited file, maybe via scripts for editors?

While that might be desirable for a personal repo, it would really piss
me off if a coworker was saving *every* *single* *version* of a file,
whether it compiled or not, in a shared repo. I think the noise would
far outweigh the useful signal.

Steve

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