[FFmpeg-devel] [CHECKLIST] what is preventing us from switch to git

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger
Sat Jun 12 20:42:13 CEST 2010


On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 08:32:36PM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> On date Saturday 2010-06-12 20:23:42 +0200, Reimar D?ffinger encoded:
> > > How so?
> > > 
> > > If there is a commit message with something wrong add a note saying
> > > "<wrong thing> is wrong. <right thing> is right."
> > 
> > Well, if the commit message ended up being
> > "Thing ist doned"
> > Then adding
> > "Note: meant "Thing is done""
> > is not a real improvement IMO.
> > To be more specific: trying to fix any typos/grammar that make things
> > not completely impossible to understand just makes things even worse
> > with that system AFAICT, IMHO.
> 
> We could have a pre-commit hook which turns the commit message to a
> commit note, then every successive change to the message would only
> affect the note.

If this is possible and does not have other issues we can think of,
this sounds like a reasonable solution.
Would this create issues for the SVN->git conversion step?



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