[Insight-developers] Commit message prefixes

[Stephen Aylward]

Ok,

I thought we had decided on ITK to use them many many years ago, and I
hadn't heard of a discussion to change.   Perhaps it was the VTK
folks.

We did previously have hooks for these, right?

Those 4-5 characters provide critical info.   If anything, we should
welcome them for the space and time they do save for those creating
the messages as well as those reading them.   They embody all things
good about shorthand, codes, keys, names, IDs, stereotypes, labels,
acronyms, and abbrevs. in a simple, universally accepted package that
only requires 4-5 characters per usage :)

s

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>> 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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