[Insight-developers] Commit message prefixes

[Bill Lorensen]

Stephen,

There was an earlier discussion about this on either the vtk or itk
developers list (I can't find it).

I lost, because the majority wanted to save 5 characters. Maybe Brad
King will comment, because he was an advocate to conserve
characters...

Bill


On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Stephen Aylward
<stephen.aylward at kitware.com> wrote:
> I think they should be mandatory - I thought we had a hook for that...
>
> s
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> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> I know this has been discussed before, but I find it annoying that
>> some of us no longer use commit message prefixes. For me, commit
>> prefixes help me scan the nightly updates. Sure, they take up 5
>> characters.
>>
>> I doubt if I can win the argument to make a prefix mandatory, but if
>> you agree, please keep adding them.
>>
>> Look here and see if they help you scan the log of changes. It helps
>> scan over the merge and nightly time stamps. In fact I wish the
>> nightly time stamps has a prefix.
>> http://itk.org/gitweb?p=ITK.git;a=shortlog
>>
>> Bill
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