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Is it me or the entire "Kosher Commit Messages" movement really gained traction with the widespread adoption of DVCSes? I really cannot recall contributors obs
by anton_gogolev 11y ago
Is it me or the entire "Kosher Commit Messages" movement really gained traction with the widespread adoption of DVCSes?
I really cannot recall contributors obsessing that much over SVN, CVS or VSS commit messages. Now, you could change these after the fact, but still.
- zamalek 11y agoFrom a code standpoint (excluding commit messages) DVCSes tend to do a better job at expressing high quality history. As an example you have two ways to express a merging history (merge and rebase), giving the developer more tools to accurately describe what has historically happened. This "mentality" seems to have leaked out of the machine and into the mindsets of developers. Just like learning a functional language will alter the way you think so will learning a SCM that values history (which DVCSes typically do).
- zelos 11y agoWe used to have a Perforce changelist guideline newsletter here. No, I'm not kidding.