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

[Alex Converse]

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Reimar D?ffinger
<Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 03:21:58PM -0400, Alex Converse wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Mans Rullgard <mans at mansr.com> wrote:
>> >>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.
>>
>> I agree with Mans. VLC, x264, gnome, git itself, and the linux kernel
>> all seem to get by without doing this.
>
> Yes, and we got by with ignoring horrible commit messages for quite a
> while too.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=shortlog
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=shortlog
http://git.videolan.org/?p=x264.git;a=shortlog
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=shortlog

I don't see an epidemic of horrible commit messages any of those places.


> I have even seen some projects subscribe to the idea "take the commit
> message for git from the email without modification no matter how bad".

Reject the patch on teh grounds of having a bad commit message, just
like we do with whitespace.

>> Git formatted patches as well as messages being written at commit time
>> not at push time, should significantly lower the ratio of bad commit
>> messages.
>
> I doubt Michael will suddenly use the shift key due to that, for example.

A capital letter at the beginning of a lone single clause sentence is
nice but not a big deal.

> Either way I'd like to remind everyone that this started out being
> about _documenting_, obviously this is one case where we cannot just
> give a "replace this svn with this git command" approach, neither
> might we want to copy the method in the first best thing a internet
> search comes up with.
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