Re: [Monotone-devel] 0.48 rants

[Jack Lloyd]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 02:11:37PM +0100, Francis Russell wrote:
> - Keeping the changelog message at the top requires no scrolling or
> anything else and allows instant typing of changelog message in most
> editors. I really dislike any of these arguments about thinking time.
> We're supposed to be trying to help to user do things as quickly as
> possible and I find myself thinking more about how to get to the
> Changelog: token than the commit itself.

I've found myself using -m just to avoid the editor entirely. I often
like to write a paragraph or two for my commit messages, and I'm
writing more and more 20-40 character commit messages lately.

I definitely prefer the template Francis included.

-Jack