From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)sun(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: First CommitFest: July 15th |
Date: | 2009-07-06 15:08:29 |
Message-ID: | 20090706150829.GB32215@fetter.org |
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On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 09:12:55AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 July 2009 00:54:11 Robert Haas wrote:
> > > I think what would be more useful is if we could
> > > somehow associated metadata with each commit. Right now, for example,
> > > the author of a patch is not stored with the patch in any structured
> > > way; it's just typed in, usually but not always as the last line of
> > > the commit. So you can't easily find out what lines of code a certain
> > > person has touched, for example. The sorts of problems that you're
> > > talking about seem broadly in the same vein.
> >
> > I have been trying to follow a convention on-and-off to put the author of the
> > patch in the last line of the commit message, like
> >
> > Author: First Last <name(at)example(dot)com>
>
> Sure, I can use that format if we decide to be consistent.
>
> > A tool such as git-cvsimport will actually parse that and put it into the
> > author field of a git commit. (The tool we use, fromcvs, doesn't do that, but
> > it could conceivably be patched easily to do it.)
> >
> > I also found the following resource helpful in crafting commit messages:
> > http://www.tpope.net/node/106
>
> Interesting idea to have a subject line for the commit message.
It would help me a lot when putting together the patches section in
the PostgreSQL Weekly News.
Cheers,
David.
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