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Re: rationales in commit messages


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: rationales in commit messages
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:09:10 +0100
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Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> report in the commit message of your patch the useful and extensive
> arguments, explanations and references you have laid out so excellently in
> your mail.

Is it better to copy the arguments into a (long) commit message,
or add a reference to the mail(s) in the lists.gnu.org archive?

I tend to do the latter, because it allows future readers to recover
the entire context of the discussion thread, including arguments and
counter-arguments. But I'm open to either style.

Note: It may take an hour or two for a mail to appear in the lists.gnu.org
archives, but by the time a committer pushes a commit, he should have
waited a bit anyway. So I don't see this as a big problem.

Bruno




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