Re: [ros-dev] [PREFIXES] in commit messages still useful?

[Kamil Hornicek]

Hi Colin,
I find them pretty useful when going through commit logs. They make it easy 
to quickly identify the component just by looking at the commit msg, to sort 
commits etc. (provided the prefix makes sense of course). So I say we keep 
using them.

Regards,
Kamil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin Finck" <mail(a)colinfinck.de>
To: "ReactOS Development List" <ros-dev(a)reactos.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 11:26 PM
Subject: [ros-dev] [PREFIXES] in commit messages still useful?


>   Hi everyone,
>
>  I'm wondering whether our [PREFIXES] in commit messages are still useful 
>  as of today?
>  If I recall correctly, they were once added to autogenerate a changelog. I 
>  also remember that this dramatically failed when Ziliang created the 
>  0.3.12 changelog and the full changelog needed to be redone from scratch, 
>  manually of course.
>
>  Furthermore, I doubt that prefixes like "[SPRINTF]" (r49512) or faulty 
>  ones like "{ASM]" (r49413) can still be reasonably associated to a 
>  changelog category.
>  After all, we don't even have a list of valid prefixes, so one has to 
>  first look at all used ones anyway.
>
>  Of course, I don't want them to be dropped instantly tomorrow, but I'm 
>  interested in your opinions.
>  I also don't yet know about the planned method for creating the 0.3.13 
>  changelog, so I might be wrong on this.
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Colin
>
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