[FFmpeg-soc] Request for a svn soc account

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 02:46:42PM +0100, Robert Swain wrote:
> 2008/7/1 zhentan feng <spyfeng at gmail.com>:
> >
> >
> > however, where do I start to use the svn soc?
> > any general rules and instructions?
> 
> MPlayer's DOCS/tech/svn-howto.txt is quite useful for some things so I
> would recommend reading this though any policy stuff doesn't
> necessarily apply to this project they're generally good guidelines.
> 
> You may want to export the EDITOR environment variable so when you
> make a commit, it prompts you for the commit message by opening your
> favourite editor. Personally I have:
> 
> export EDITOR="nano -w"
> 
> ...in my ~/.bashrc. Otherwise when committing you need to use the -m
> "Message here" option though this is more difficult to use for
> messages longer than 80 chars that need new lines and so on.

No, please get used to writing your log messages in an editor right
away.  Everything else just leads to bad commit messages.

Diego