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

[Mans Rullgard]

"Stefano Sabatini" <stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> wrote:

>On date Saturday 2010-06-12 20:23:42 +0200, Reimar D?ffinger encoded:
>> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 02:12:43PM -0400, Alex Converse wrote:
>> > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Reimar D?ffinger
>> > <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
>> > > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 01:49:17PM -0400, Alex Converse wrote:
>> > >> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Reimar D?ffinger
>> > >> <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
>> > >> > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 12:43:51PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> > >> >> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
>> > >> >> > * We need to document, a short cheat sheet that lists the
>> > >> >> > ? git equivalents to the common svn commands (that of course before
>> > >> >> > ? a switch is done)
>> > >> >>
>> > >> >> There are many such guides already written and available on the internet.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > That does not remove the need for above. Also I still have no idea how to
>> > >> > fix commit messages on a remote repository without risk of breaking other
>> > >> > people's checkout.
>> > >>
>> > >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-notes.html
>> > >
>> > > Sounds useless for typos or any massive messup to me...
>> > 
>> > 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.

I vehemently object to that ludicrous idea.
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Mans Rullgard
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