[Insight-developers] Commit message prefixes

[David Doria]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Stephen Aylward <
stephen.aylward at kitware.com> wrote:

> 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


I'm not sure how many prefixes there are, but the ones I know are BUG,
STYLE, and ENH. If character count is the only concern, could they be
shortened to B:, S:, and E: ? I vote +1 for mandatory prefixes.

David
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